NASA Sources for Solar-Terrestrial Observer Flight Systems

NASA seeks market information on flight systems for use with a solar-terrestrial observer spacecraft in support of a potential 2025 mission.

The single-spacecraft Solar-Terrestrial Observer for Reconnection in the Magnetosphere mission is intended to study global solar wind phenomena and identify the functions of reconnection and particle acceleration, the space agency said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice.

Goddard Space Flight Center would facilitate the mission to support the research goals of the 2019 Medium-Class Explorer or MIDEX program.

STORM would be designed to operate at a high-inclination circular orbit and perform its mission for at least two years.

The spacecraft would use a set of wide field-of-view imagers to identify plasma structure responses associated with Earth’s magnetosphere.

Responses to the sourcing are due on Jan. 2, 2019.