Space Systems and Hardware Integration for Novel Experiments (SSHINE) (Request for Proposal)

Provides concept design, development, integration, test and evaluation, and engineering prototypes to demonstrate the viability of innovative space technologies along with cradle-tograve support to ground, high-altitude balloon, near-space and spaceflight experiments and mission concepts, including concept development, requirements analysis, requirements definition, modeling and simulation, design, assembly, integration, and testing (AI&T), launch vehicle integration, ground system development/support, flight operations, user segment support, data acquisition, post-experiment analysis, technical reporting, technology transition, and/or decommissioning. Support processes and functions include, but are not limited to, scientific, technical, systems engineering, ground system development/support, flight operations, user segment support, and program advocacy activities associated with integrated flight experiments.