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$40,064,053

National Aeronautics and Space Administration·National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to KINETX INC

aerospaceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2013 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2013-06-01·LATEST ACTION2026-02-13·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_NNG13FC02C_8000_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

THE CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY PERSONNEL, FACILITIES, SERVICES, AND MATERIALS TO DESIGN, CODE, INTEGRATE AND TEST THE OSIRIS-REX FLIGHT DYNAMICS SYSTEM TO SUPPORT THE OSIRIS-REX LAUNCH AND FLIGHT OPERATIONS TO RETRIEVE A SAMPLE OF THE NEO AND RETURN THE SAMPLE TO EARTH. AFTER LAUNCH, KINETX SHALL PROVIDE OPERATIONS SUPPORT FOR 30 DAYS. THE SCOPE OF THIS SOW COVERS PHASE C/D OF THE OSIRIS-REX LIFE CYCLE. THIS WORK SHALL BE PERFORMED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT AND ALL ATTACHMENTS TO THE CONTRACT.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Design, code, integrate, and test flight dynamics systems for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission.

Sub-sectors
nasa-space-missionsflight-dynamics-systemssample-return-mission
Why this matters

OSIRIS-REx is a flagship NASA mission to retrieve pristine asteroid material; flight dynamics are critical to mission success and sample return.

Supply-chain signal

Indicates sustained demand for specialized aerospace software, systems integration, and mission operations expertise from NASA contractors.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. leadership in autonomous sample-return missions and deep-space navigation demonstrates technological advantage in space exploration capabilities.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002382.

Period of performance
Start
2013-06-01
End
2027-03-31
Status
activein 316 days
Sources

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