NASA has awarded SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, a modification beneath the NASA Launch Providers (NLS) II contract so as to add Starship to their present Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service choices.
The NLS II contracts present a broad vary of economic launch providers for NASA’s planetary, Earth-observing, exploration, and scientific satellites. These high-priority, low and medium danger tolerant missions have full NASA technical oversight and mission assurance, ensuing within the highest likelihood of launch success.
The NLS II contracts are a number of award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, with an ordering interval by way of June 2030 and an general interval of efficiency by way of December 2032. The contracts embrace an on-ramp provision that gives a possibility yearly for brand new launch service suppliers so as to add their launch service on an NLS II contract and compete for future missions and permits present contractors to introduce launch providers not at present on their NLS II contracts.
The contracts assist the targets and aims of the company’s Science Mission Directorate, Area Operations Mission Directorate, Explorations Techniques Improvement Mission Directorate, and the Area Know-how Mission Directorate. Beneath the contracts, NASA can also present launch providers to different federal authorities companies.
NASA’s Launch Providers Program Workplace on the company’s Kennedy Area Middle in Florida manages the NLS II contracts. For extra details about NASA and company applications, go to:
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Tiernan Doyle / Joshua Finch
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600 / 202-358-1100
tiernan.doyle@.nasa.gov / joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov
Patti Bielling
Kennedy Area Middle, Florida
321-501-7575
patricia.a.bielling@nasa.gov
