With this Request for Proposals (RFP), the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) plans to award a contract to identify a mission concept for an Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Observation Mission focused on Northern Regions.
The activity has the following objectives:
Assess the feasibility and cost of current Mission Objectives and Observation Requirements.
Examine options to provide the requisite data as preparatory work for a preliminary business case.
Flow-down preliminary Mission and Instrument level Requirements from the Mission Objectives and Observation Requirements.
Identify and analyze payloads and payload options to meet Observation Requirements for Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas (AQ-GHG) measurements at northern latitudes, perform trade-offs, and identify best options.
Develop mission concepts to meet primary requirements for AQ-GHG measurements and assess the feasibility to meet the secondary mission objectives.
Identify key Canadian technologies and propose a mission development plan.
Assess the future commercial potential of the associated payload technologies.
Period of the Contract: The period of the contract will be for approximately 14 months commencing on the day of contract award.
