{"id":770072,"date":"2023-10-20T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770072"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:56:00","slug":"nextstep-appendix-l-cis-capability-studies-ii-wideband-phased-array-crosslink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770072","title":{"rendered":"NextSTEP Appendix L: CIS Capability Studies II: Wideband\/Phased Array\/Crosslink"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-CIS-Appendix_L<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>June 12, 2023 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/opp\/4f160f99c1cb46ceaf0000d20326ace8\/view\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Presolicitation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 6, 2023 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/opp\/c3bb10ea41db4516b80a37cd2d631156\/view\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Solicitation<\/a> released<\/li>\n<li>Sept. 13, 2023 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-announces-near-earth-communications-navigation-industry-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Selections announced<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Solicitation Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA has released a solicitation notice under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (Next STEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)\u00a0 to seek industry-led capabilities studies to inform future communication and navigation activities.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s long-term vision is to provide for a resilient space and ground communications and navigation infrastructure in which space mission users can seamlessly \u201croam\u201d between an array of space-based and ground-based networks. Initially, NASA seeks to create an interoperable architecture composed of a mixture of existing NASA assets and commercial networks and services. In the long-term, this will allow for a smooth transition to fully commercialized communications services for near-Earth users. The overarching goal is to create a reliable, robust, and cost-effective set of commercial services in which NASA is one of many customers.<\/p>\n<p>The Commercialization, Innovation, and Synergies (CIS) Office\u2019s second Capability Studies BAA seeks industry insights and innovative guidance in the following three (3) Thrust Areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wideband Satellite Communications<\/li>\n<li>Phased Array Ground Systems<\/li>\n<li>Constellation Topology Analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Near Space Network antennas at NASA&#x2019;s White Sands Complex in Las Cruces, New Mexico.\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" \/><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Near Space Network antennas at NASA\u2019s White Sands Complex in Las Cruces, New Mexico.<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>-end-<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/nextstep-appendix-l-cis-capability-studies-ii-wideband-phased-array-crosslink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NextSTEP Appendix L: CIS Capability Studies II: Wideband\/Phased Array\/Crosslink<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Breaking News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-CIS-Appendix_L June 12, 2023 \u2013 Presolicitation July 6, 2023 \u2013 Solicitation released Sept. 13, 2023 \u2014 Selections announced Solicitation Overview NASA has released a solicitation notice under the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}