Description
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is seeking information from U.S. and international commercial providers on support for the Artemis IV mission. Specifically, NASA is interested in innovative, secondary communications capabilities that can enable robust, high-rate data return from the Orion crew vehicle during operations in lunar orbit. The ideal system should provide near continuous communication with a return link of at least 12 Mbps, while in a lunar orbit. Key design parameters include data interface, hardware control and telemetry interface, power interface, mass, and max volume. Respondents are invited to submit end-to-end system concepts that could provide continuous, high bandwidth transmission of mission data in the dynamic lunar environment.
• The system must provide a broad field of regard or steerable antenna/aperture.
• The system should be able to support a non-critical (Crit 3) application.
• The system should be able to operate in a lunar orbit.
• The system should be able to provide near continuous communication with a return link of at least 12 Mbps.
• The system should be able to support a data rate of > 500 kbps uplink.