NASA has awarded the Restore-L Vision Sensor Subsystem (VSS) Visible Wavelength Spaceflight Camera contract to Malin Space Science Systems Inc. of San Diego.
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with a 22-month base period and an option for an additional 18-months. The maximum value of this contract, including the option, is approximately $7,552,781.
The VSS camera will be utilized on the Restore-L servicing vehicle to provide situational awareness imagery of robotic servicing activities to ground operators. Multiple versions of the VSS camera will be placed throughout the Restore-L spacecraft as well as at the ends of the two robotic servicing arms.
The VSS camera system shall consist of only the detector, lens assembly and supporting electronics that output the camera’s imagery. Complicated data manipulation, buffering, and image processing will occur outside of the camera, further downstream inside of the Restore-L avionics subsystem at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office at Goddard was established in 2009 to continue NASA’s 40-year legacy of satellite servicing and repair. Among its various pursuits, SSCO is responsible for the development of the Restore-L satellite servicing mission. Restore-L is a free-flying mission to be launched in 2020 to perform on-orbit satellite servicing on an operational government asset in low-Earth orbit.
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Cynthia M. O’Carroll
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-4787
cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov