CRS-2, Weather Sat Top Civil Space Procurement Agenda for 2015

摘要

In two of this year s higher-profile civil space procurements, NASA's commercial cargo carriers face challengers for follow-on contracts to haul supplies to the International Space Station, while Ball Aerospace is competing to build another polar-orbiting weather spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Bids are in on NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)-2 program, and while the agency has not said how many contracts it will award, at least two are expected in June. The program is intended to keep supplies flowing to the International Space Station from 2018, when the CRS-1 contracts held by Orbital Sciences Corp. and SpaceX expire, through 2024, the year to which the White House has proposed extending station operations.