Concept Study for an Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Observation Mission focused on Northern Regions

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.