{"id":768180,"date":"2026-06-29T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768180\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:15:08","slug":"nextstep-3-a-lunar-enabling-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768180\/","title":{"rendered":"NextSTEP-3 A: Lunar Enabling Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solicitation Number: 80GRC026R0008\u00a0<br \/>May 19, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/workspace\/contract\/opp\/69e9582d4829482e8b31bca8cd448973\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Synopsis issued<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>June\u00a029, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/workspace\/contract\/opp\/5a7fe1267f3a40b4a40ac4470149c61e\/view\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/workspace\/contract\/opp\/5a7fe1267f3a40b4a40ac4470149c61e\/view\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Draft\u00a0BAA and Appendix A Issued<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/stmd\/nasa-seeks-industry-input-to-accelerate-lunar-surface-technologies\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/stmd\/nasa-seeks-industry-input-to-accelerate-lunar-surface-technologies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News Release<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NASA issued a draft Broad Agency Announcement under NextSTEP\u20113, Appendix A, on June 29, 2026, to advance concepts that accelerate the technological readiness of critical systems for lunar surface and cislunar architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This solicitation seeks to close key technology gaps and mature capabilities in vertical solar arrays, ISRU oxygen production systems, Stirling radioisotope generators, in\u2011space manufacturing, and advanced nanomaterials production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It focuses on identifying technology areas that require further risk reduction and ground\u2011based testing to mature competing solutions to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5\u20136. Funded efforts will advance the technology objectives of NASA\u2019s Moon Base by demonstrating critical systems and accelerating the development of transformative capabilities needed for near\u2011term mission success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information, read the Lunar Enabling Infrastructure Accelerator (LEIA) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) NextSTEP-3 Appendix A \u2013 Draft Solicitation on <a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/workspace\/contract\/opp\/69e9582d4829482e8b31bca8cd448973\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SAM.gov<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solicitation Number: 80GRC026R0008\u00a0May 19, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Synopsis issued\u00a0June\u00a029, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Draft\u00a0BAA and Appendix A Issued | News Release\u00a0\u00a0 NASA issued a draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,3648,365567,365568,128,285,31196,105],"class_list":["post-768180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-glenn-research-center","tag-lunar-surface-innovation-initiative","tag-lunar-surface-technology-research","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-technology-mission-directorate","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}