SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENTAnnex • November 24th, 2020
The legal authority for this Annex, consistent with the Umbrella Agreement, is in accordance with the National Aeronautics and Space Act (51 U.S.C. § 20113(e)).
AND UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE, LLC ATLAS V VIASAT UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 34019, (ANNEX NUMBER 37392).Annex • March 14th, 2023
This Annex shall be for the purpose of providing NASA Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) services to United Launch Alliance (ULA) for the Atlas V ViaSat Mission.
AND UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE, LLC UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 34019, (ANNEX NUMBER 34064).Annex • May 27th, 2021
This Annex shall be for the purpose of providing NASA Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) services to United Launch Alliance initial launch vehicle mission using SCaN services which is scheduled for 2021.
ANNEX BETWEENAnnex • December 10th, 2020
This Annex shall be for the purpose of establishing a collaboration on battery modeling and experimental testing for aerospace applications between NASA Ames Research Center and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University (Purdue). Purdue Department of Mechnical Engineering has expertise in advanced battery modeling and testing techniques. Many high-performance aerospace applications, which are typical for NASA, require high performance batteries with stringent requirements for high energy storage capacity, power, and safety. Such batteries are often not available commercially and must be designed for the specific application. Battery modeling will dramatically accelerate development of high-performance batteries and enable their associated engineering applications. NASA and Purdue will collaborate on battery modeling and experimental testing for NASA electric aircraft applications and others to be determined.
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENTAnnex • October 14th, 2020
This Annex shall be for the purpose of collaboration in the review of design approaches and manufacturing of major components for a unique, specialized application to a revolutionary rocket engine design.
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENTAnnex • April 23rd, 2024
This Annex shall be for the purpose of allowing Partner to provide a vehicle (and any associated Advanced Air Mobility airspace service provider) to fly in the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign 1 (NC-1) and demonstrate key integrated operational AAM scenarios. All flight activities of Partner aircraft must be conducted at a flight test range in the United States.
THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AMES RESEARCH CENTER AND THE BOEING COMPANY UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 29381, SAA2-403460 FORAnnex • April 2nd, 2021
This Annex Two to the Reimbursable Space Act Umbrella Agreement SAA2-403460 (the “Umbrella Agreement”) between NASA Ames Research Center (“NASA or “NASA ARC”) and the Boeing Company (“Boeing” or “Partner”) shall be for the purpose of performing a wind tunnel test of the airplane configurations of Boeing using the 11x11-Foot Transonic Wind Tunnel (“TWT”) and the 9x7-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel (“SWT”) at the NASA ARC Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (“UPWT”) in order to obtain aerodynamic performance data. This Annex is consistent with NASA’s mission to drive advances in aeronautics. Each capitalized term used in this Annex Two, but not defined herein, shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Umbrella Agreement.
UNDER REIMBURSABLE UMBRELLA SPACE ACT AGREEMENT NO. SSAA-1053-0174Annex • January 27th, 2021
This Annex shall be for the purpose of performing developmental testing of a Liquid Oxygen (LOX) Turbopump Assembly at E1/C2. The legal authority for this Annex, consistent with the Umbrella Agreement, is in accordance with the National Aeronautics and Space Act (51 U.S.C. § 20113(e)).
ANNEX BETWEENAnnex • November 16th, 2021
The purpose of this Annex is to provide expert services on a reimbursable basis to Intuitive Machines, LLC ("IM") in support of IM's development of lunar robotic technologies and capabilities. NASA will provide expertise to assist IM in Telemetry, Tracking and Communication. This Annex shall involve the opportunity to conduct "live sky" tests to downlink Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( "LRO") housekeeping telemetry data and radiometric data via S-band at the Morehead Ground Station to the Intuitive Machines' Base Band Unit (hereinafter "BBU") under the 21m dish. The purpose of these tests is to ensure the IM Lunar Ground Segment is verified as ready for upcoming Lunar Lander missions in 2022. This Annex shall also allow the opportunity to conduct additional "live sky" tests with LRO via S-band at other IM-contracted Ground Stations to the IM Base Band Units under each dish. These IM-owned BBUs at each Ground Station location are solely connected to Nova Control in Houston and collective
THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION GEORGE C. MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER AND BLUE ORIGIN, LLC UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. SAA- EA-20-29343, DATED 2/8/2020 (ANNEX NUMBER 23).Annex • September 22nd, 2022
The purpose of this Annex shall be for NASA to evaluate the susceptibility for embrittlement of selected alloys exposed to varying gaseous hydrogen environments. This testing will be performed at Marshall Space Flight Center's Hydrogen Test Facility. Mechanical properties of the materials will be measured from specimens tested at temperatures ranging from room temperature up to 400 °F, and at pressures up to 5000 psi.
SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT SAA1-34272 FORAnnex • March 24th, 2021
This Annex shall be for the purpose of collaborative research, development, and demonstration of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) High Density Vertiplex (HDV) technologies and concepts. Work in this area includes:
THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION GEORGE C. MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER AND RUAG SPACE USA, INC UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENTAnnex • January 19th, 2022
This Annex shall be for the purpose of MSFC providing to RUAG materials required to collect nonvolatile residue (NVR) samples and then MSFC perform Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis on the samples collected by RUAG to verify that NVR cleanliness levels are being met by RUAG's manufacturing procedures. This may be done a maximum of twelve (12) times over the course of this Annex with each analysis consisting of up to 8 NVR sample swabs.
THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AND LOCKHEED MARTIN UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. SAA8-2134560, DATED 7/14/2021 (ANNEX NUMBER 2).Annex • October 5th, 2022
This Annex shall be for the purpose of performing propellant testing and analysis for Lockheed Martin (LMCO) as a part of the collaboration with NASA in the development of aerospace systems.
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 33082, DATED 10/6/2020 (ANNEX NUMBER 3).Annex • February 9th, 2021
This Annex shall be for the purpose of NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) to perform Orbital Debris Object Reentry Survival Analysis Tool (ORSAT) analyses to predict the reentry survivability of LauncherOne upper stage components reentering the atmosphere, which are elements of VO's air-launched vehicle system. VO's primary business focus is to provide responsive orbital launch services for small spacecraft. VO is developing the LauncherOne to deliver spacecraft to orbit, but the orbital debris environment concerns them. The ORSAT code uses integrated trajectory, atmospheric, aerodynamic, aerothermodynamic, and thermal/ablation models to perform a complete satellite analysis in determining the impact risk.
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 40473 / SAA2-403808 (ANNEX NUMBER ONE)Annex • May 22nd, 2024
This Annex shall be for the purpose of NASA ARC performing unique design support, analysis, consultation, and arc jet testing to enable Blue Origin’s development of commercial space transportation activities under an existing Reimbursable Space Act Umbrella Agreement (“Umbrella Agreement”) with Blue Origin (SAA2-403808)(PAM ID # 40473). Each capitalized term used in this Annex One, but not defined herein, shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Umbrella Agreement. Blue Origin (“Partner”) and NASA ARC may be individually referred to as a “Party” and collectively referred to as the “Parties.”
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. KCA-4701 (ANNEX NUMBER 1)Annex • January 14th, 2022
This Annex shall be for the purpose of NASA KSC providing RocketStar, LLC with Spaceport Management and Integration support.
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENTAnnex • July 20th, 2021
The purpose of this Annex is to perform testing of the thrust chamber assembly (TCA) of the Newton 4 Engine that is under development by Virgin Orbit, LLC.
ANNEX BETWEENAnnex • May 23rd, 2022
This Annex shall be for the purpose of performing structural qualification tests on a second Interstage Adapter (ISA) Qualification Module 2 (QM2) composite Structural Test Article (STA) for RUAG Space USA Inc. in support of the Centaur V/Vulcan rocket program.
AND KT ENGINEERING CORPORATION UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENTAnnex • December 9th, 2020
This Annex shall be for the purpose of performing analysis in support of the KTE/Invocon team in the development and flight testing of the Aerospike Flight Test Article (AFTA) under the Air Force Aerospike Rocket Intergration and Suborbital experiment ARISE) program.
SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. SAA8-2235543, DATED 4/21/2022 ANNEX NUMBER SAA8-2235543.2Annex • June 7th, 2022
The legal authority for this Annex, consistent with the Umbrella Agreement, is in accordance with the Space Act, Other Transactions Authority (OTA), 51 U.S.C. § 20113(e).
THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AMES RESEARCH CENTER AND UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. SAA2-403529 (ANNEX NUMBER ONE)Annex • April 14th, 2021
This activity will also connect NASA with Partner’s students, to allow them exposure to NASA research in hypersonics, and to support NASA’s goals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement.
SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. SAA8-2339781, DATED SAA8-2339781.1Annex • November 27th, 2023
This Annex shall be for the purpose of working with Firefly Aerospace in helping to resolve persistent thermal issues that have appeared during development of their Blue Ghost RCS engines, as well as to provide subject matter expert consultation from within the propulsion department on engine and system design best practices with respect to spacecraft propulsion systems. Support provided on this Annex will encompass engines that will be flown on Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander, as well as the Elytra orbital vehicle. This collaboration effort will involve the review of design approaches, manufacturing methods, and the operation of major components for Firefly Aerospace's unique rocket engine designs.
INNOVATIVE ROCKET TECHNOLOGIES INC. UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. SAA8-2134251, DATEDAnnex • May 28th, 2021
This Annex shall be for the purpose of collaboration with iRocket to advance delivery of payloads ranging in mass from 300 kg to 1500 kg to either low earth orbit (LOE) or geosynchronous orbit. iRocket wishes to leverage the unique capabilities, expertise, and knowledge of NASA in multiple technology areas to help to optimally design and develop such capabilities for both NASA and commercial missions. This collaboration is intended to advance the reusable commercial space-related efforts by facilitating access by iRocket to NASA's extensive resources including facilities, technical expertise, hardware, and software.
SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT KCA-4722Annex • November 14th, 2022
This Annex shall be for the purpose of NASA KSC providing SpaceX with Spaceport Operations and Integration support. Additional services will be provided to the Partner via subsequent Annexes consistent with the purpose and terms of the Umbrella Agreement.
SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. SAA8-2236912, DATED SAA8-2236912.1Annex • August 12th, 2022
This Annex shall be for the purpose of providing unique NASA capabilities and subject matter expertise in the conduct of subscale article creep testing for inflatable softgoods. This testing is in support of Sierra Space's efforts to develop and certify softgoods for future space habitat applications.
ANNEX NO. 8 BETWEENAnnex • February 27th, 2023
This Annex covers the testing of lunar tires at the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC). The tires are being provided by Lockheed Martin and are intended for use on potential Artemis Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) rover missions. Testing will include traction evaluation in the NASA GRC Simulated Lunar Operations (SLOPE) Lab, and fatigue testing at temperature. NASA GRC will also be providing subject matter expertise on subsystem thermal vacuum testing at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 29343, DATED 2/8/2020 (ANNEX NUMBER 19).Annex • October 20th, 2022
This Annex shall be for the purpose of allowing partner to access NASA White Sands Test Facility's (WSTF) expertise and capabilities for materials, fluids and component testing, goods, services, and analysis in NASA-STD-2007-213740 Guide for Oxygen Compatibility Assessments on Oxygen Components and Systems / NASA-STD-6001 Flammability, Offgassing, and Compatibility Requirements and Test Procedures and related consensus methodology standard testing (such as NASA-STD-6016 or TP-WSTF- 629 Navy Submarine Atmosphere Material Control Protocol). WSTF's Oxygen and Standard Testing core capability has evaluated materials for spacecraft safety for more than 30 years maintaining vast hazard evaluation experience. NASA WSTF possesses unique testing facilities, unique custom analysis and interpretation capabilities, as well as unique NASA Materials and Processing (M&P) certification. WSTF is the only oxygen, propellant, and NASA-STD-6001 materials and component test facility and these services ares
UNDER UMBRELLA SPACE ACT AGREEMENT # 35587 BETWEENAnnex • April 6th, 2022
The purpose of this Annex is to facilitate collaboration between NASA and the AIAA Foundation (AIAA) in the Foundation’s development of their Students to Launch (S2L) pilot. S2L is an education initiative designed to inspire students from communities traditionally underrepresented and underserved in STEM to pursue STEM coursework and careers. Using rocket launches as a catalyst, S2L will develop programming for middle and high school students around specific NASA missions. Programming will introduce students to space careers and launch activities and will include hands-on, standards-aligned learning activities inspired by current NASA missions and launches. In-person and virtual events, conversations with subject matter experts, encounters with space professionals combined with real-time launch watch- parties serve as additional engagement points to broaden and deepen the connections between S2L participants and the wonders of space exploration. S2L programming materials, activities an
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 31972, DATED 6/12/2020 (ANNEX NUMBER 3)Annex • August 2nd, 2023
This Annex shall be for the purpose of identifying and predicting new enhanced materials formulations with tailored properties for Nissan North America’s (NNA) automotive applications for the development and validation of software tools based on NNA requirements. NNA wishes to leverage NASA Ames Research Center’s (ARC) unique and significant experience in material informatics and predictive computational modeling of materials to develop software for materials informatics and to identify and predict unique material properties and provide recommendations to NNA concerning promising candidates for novel applications based on these predictions. The Annex will result in the development of a new, unique package for materials informatics that will leverage machine learning algorithms and material databases to identify and predict new materials with tailored properties.
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 36170, DATED 3/4/2022 (ANNEX NUMBER 4).Annex • July 24th, 2024
This annex shall be for the purpose of providing the "Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel Damage Detection Course" (COPV DDC) Composite Overwrap Pressure Vessel (COPV): While basic pressure vessel evaluation services may be commercially available, WSTF possesses uniquely instrumented test facilities and equipment that allow it to provide unprecedented flaw detection and to collect flight rationale data not available in the commercial marketplace. Further, NASA inspection equipment not found in the commercial market provide unprecedented insights into COPV structural health and response. Customers require these higher levels of pressure vessel evaluation and analysis when certifying vessels to sensitive and potentially catastrophic applications such as spaceflight and automotive fields. Since the inception of the technology in the 1970's, WSTF has been at the forefront of NASA efforts to test and evaluate COPV technology.
ANNEX BETWEENAnnex • July 21st, 2021
Under this Annex, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”) Glenn Research Center (“GRC”) will perform environmental testing on the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (“AEPS”) Power Processing Unit (“PPU”) hardware supplied by Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. (“Partner” or “Aerojet”). This activity is consistent with the purpose set forth in Article 2 of the Space Act Umbrella Agreement (No. SAA3-1639) between the Parties (the “Umbrella Agreement”) for the Partner to develop, build, and test aerospace components using NASA GRC’s goods, services, facilities, and/or equipment to advance Aerojet’s interests; the AEPS PPU is a piece of sophisticated aerospace technology that will be tested for Aerojet’s benefit using NASA GRC’s unique facilities and expertise. This activity is also consistent with NASA’s mission in that it will help facilitate in general the advancement of PPU technology, which is anticipated to be used in future NASA endeavors as the Agency pursues higher power
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 29380/ SAA2-403460 FORAnnex • June 7th, 2022
This Annex Three on the Reimbursable Space Act Umbrella Agreement SAA2-403460 (the “Umbrella Agreement”) between The Boeing Company (“Boeing” or “Partner”) and NASA Ames Research Center (“NASA or “NASA ARC”) shall be for the purpose of performing a wind tunnel test of the airplane configurations of Boeing in the 11x11-Foot Transonic Wind Tunnel (“TWT”) and the 9x7-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel (“SWT”) at NASA ARC in order to obtain aerodynamic performance data. Each capitalized term used in this Annex Three, but not defined herein, shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Umbrella Agreement.
UNDER SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. 29380, DATED 4/27/2020 FORAnnex • June 26th, 2023
This Annex Five on the Reimbursable Space Act Umbrella Agreement SAA2-403460 (the “Umbrella Agreement”) between The Boeing Company (“Boeing” or “Partner”) and NASA Ames Research Center (“NASA or “NASA ARC”) shall be for the purpose of performing an aerodynamic wind tunnel test of a test article in the NASA ARC Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (UPWT) to obtain aerodynamic performance data. The model would be run in both the 11x11- Foot Transonic Wind Tunnel (“TWT”) and the 9x7-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel (“SWT”) legs of the UPWT.
ANNEX TWO BETWEENAnnex • May 31st, 2023
This Annex shall be for the purpose of John C. Stennis Space Center to support ABL Space Systems with CFD and plume diagnostic engineering expertise.
SPACE ACT UMBRELLA AGREEMENT NO. SAA8-2237691, DATED 12/9/2022 SAA8-2237691.2Annex • June 26th, 2023
This Annex shall be for the purpose of continuing the design, development, test and evaluation (DDT&E) process of a thruster valve. ER completed a One Newton (1N) thruster valve specification as part of a previous annex to establish the necessary requirements for the DDT&E to produce a flight-qualified valve. A development valve has been designed to the specification through the normal process of System Requirements Review, Conceptual Design Review, Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, and Design Certification Review. A qualification valve will be fabricated and tested to demonstrate the design satisfies all specification requirements.
