Commercial Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Development Program Destination and Payload Safety Technical Interchange Meeting

This is a Special Notice and does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will take action in this matter.

Background:

As NASA plans for the retirement of the International Space Station at the end of the decade, the ability of private industry to take on the task of providing routine utilization of low-Earth orbit and maintaining a continuous U.S. presence in space is of vital importance to both NASA and U.S. goals.

In a multiphase strategy, the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) is helping to spur the development of new low-Earth orbit space destinations and supporting systems from private industry. These systems include end-to-end services such as the in-orbit destination, visiting vehicles, and supporting launch vehicles and ground systems.

NASA is currently developing requirements for Commercial LEO Destination (CLD) capabilities that would be able to support NASA astronauts and other spaceflight participants safely in LEO on a commercially owned and operated space system. NASA anticipates a CLD-provider will be required to be a U.S. Commercial Provider as defined in 51 USC § 50101(7). See link here for additional information: https://www.nasa.gov/leo-economy/low-earth-orbit-economy/

Purpose:

NASA’s CLDP invites industry to attend a TIM regarding CLDP’s draft concepts on Destination and Payload Safety. NASA will outline Safety best practices and lessons learned from NASA Human Spaceflight Programs along with core activities and processes needed to support safe operations and utilization. This two-day event will be hosted at JSC’s Gilruth Center (Destiny Ballroom) in Houston, TX on August 13th, and 14th, 2024. The agenda is included in the attachment "0 - Agenda CLDP Safety TIM"

This event supports NASA’s effort to maintain open communications with the private sector that could aid in the development of safe, reliable, innovative, and cost-effective space destination capabilities.

NASA reserves the right to share all information received in response to this event within the Commercial Low-Earth Orbit Development Program and other NASA program stakeholders, and to use all information submitted in response to this exchange in the formulation of CLDP strategy.

Attendance:

Space is limited and pre-registration is required to ensure availability for in-person attendance. Each company will be limited to having a maximum of 5 in-person attendees. There will not be a virtual attendance option.

Location:

• Destiny Ballroom inside of the Gilruth Center (18600 Space Center Blvd, Houston, TX 77058).

Date and Time:

• August 13, 2024 – 8:15am to 5:00pm


• August 14, 2024 – 8:15am to 5:00pm.

Registration:

Interested parties are required to RSVP by submitting a request to the following email address:JSC-CLDP-CDFF@mail.nasa.gov with the subject line: “RSVP to CLDP SAFETY TIM – INSERT COMPANY NAME”. Please submit only one registration request per company/organization no later than 4:00 pm Central time on Friday, August 9, 2024.

Please include the following information in the registration request:

1. Company/Organization Name:


2. Company Point of Contact:
   
   
   
   1. name,
   
   
   2. position/title,
   
   
   3. email address and,
   
   
   4. phone number.
   
   
   
   


3. List of People attending in-person by name and position/title.