2023年2月21日

美国太空力量的新收购方法旨在鼓励更多的发射投标人SpaceX发射GPS III SV06轨道。照片:美国美国太空力量的空间系统司令部(SSC) 2月16日释放了两名国家安全太空发射(NSSL)三期《建议书请求(RFP)基于车道收购方法鼓励新的商业进入者出价低成本启动程序,确保美国能够发送卫星空间更迅速地应对任何中国构成的威胁。RFP”建立在历史NSSL项目的成功,对我们国家的需要解决的挑战,踱步”Stephen Purdy少将,保证项目执行官进入太空,在2月16日的一份声明中说。“我们开发的收购策略组成的两车道的方法,提供多样化的商用系统,增加弹性通过交替发射站点和流线型的集成时间,允许新兴推出年度入站服务提供商和系统,保证发射能力,使供应链的稳定性,并提高购买力最强调国家安全太空任务。“这样保证进入太空是空军部长弗兰克·肯德尔的操作规则。巷1 SSC的新双车道的方法”将使用多个公司固定价格不确定交付,不确定数量(IDIQ)合同对所有合格的投标人,开放”命令说。“买家不需要满足所有NSSL轨道巷1中竞争,”/ SSC。“巷1年度匝道机会新兴供应商或系统已经准备好了。巷1涵盖采购从2025财年到2034财年组成的五年基本订购周期+ 5年的选择。巷1服务更偏好空间飞行器发射商业可寻址的轨道。任务订单每年推出服务竞争在所有IDIQ获奖者。 The government may order missions individually or in blocks. Launch providers must propose fully-burdened launch service prices that include all applicable launch service support. Lane 1 also incorporates tiered mission assurance as required by each mission’s risk tolerance.” Lane 2, by contrast, will likely be for companies already in the launch arena, as Lane 2 “includes missions that require full mission assurance with certified launch vehicles” and payloads that “require launches to more stressing orbits, necessitating higher performance launch systems, and complex security and integration requirements,” SSC said. SSC is to pick two companies for Lane 2 under firm fixed price IDIQ contracts. The command said that it expects to release the final RFPs between April and June and to award contracts for Lane 1 and 2 in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024. Last November, SSSC entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Blue Origin for the company’s New Glenn Rocket, more than three years after the company and Northrop Grumman lost out in February 2019 to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA) for launch awards under Phase 2 of National Security Space Launch (NSSL). The CRADA “marks the restart of certification activities for Blue Origin’s New Glenn that began in 2018 when Blue Origin won a Launch Service Agreement,” SSC said last November. “SSC terminated Blue Origin’s LSA in December 2020 after the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 2 winners were announced.” While the U.S. Air Force said that it did not pay termination costs to Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin for ending their Launch Service Agreement Other Transaction Authority pacts on Dec. 31, 2020, the service did pay the companies more than $787 million for meeting milestones in the more than two years the companies spent developing their launch systems–OmegA for Northrop Grumman and New Glenn for Blue Origin. The Air Force paid $531 million to Northrop Grumman and $255.5 million to Blue Origin. Under SSC’s new CRADA with Blue Origin, the company “must successfully complete certification flights and provide design and qualification data to enable AATS to conduct its independent verification and validation process,” SSC said.