Sep 28 1985
From The Space Library
NASA announced that it had launched INTELSAT V-A (F-12), 10th in a series of 11 INTELSAT V-type satellites to be launched in the 1980 to 1985 period for the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT), from its facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Atlas/Centaur launch vehicle.
INTELSAT assigned the satellite to the Indian Ocean region to replace INTELSAT V (F-1), which INTELSAT ordered moved to the Pacific Ocean Region where, in combination with INTELSAT V (F-8), it would replace INTELSAT IVA satellites that were running out of station keeping propellants.
INTELSAT awarded Ford Aerospace as prime contractor and an international team of manufacturers as subcontractors a contract for development and manufacture of INTELSAT V-A satellites. INTELSAT was also considering a number of follow-on satellites with modified and expanded communications capabilities. (NASA Release 85-134; NASA MOR M-491-203-85-10 [prelaunch] Sept 19/85, [postlaunch] Oct 10/85.) September 30: NASA announced selection of 150 research proposals from small business high-technology firms under a program established by the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 (PL 97-219) to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small businesses in meeting NASA's research and development needs, and contribute to the growth and strength of the nation's economy. NASA selected proposals on the basis of their technical merit from the 1,164 submitted and expected to award contracts in four to eight weeks.
Contractors funded under the program would conduct work in two phases: first, a six-month fixed-price effort to explore the feasibility of the small business-proposed innovations and, if the results warranted, a second phase effort of up to two years in duration to proceed further with the technological innovation. Commercial firms or government agency programs would fund any work beyond the second phase.
The selections resulted from NASA's third solicitation for Phase I proposals in areas of research and development of interest to the agency. NASA's FY 85 budget included approximately $7.5 million for Phase I, managed by the Office of Commercial Programs, NASA Headquarters. (NASA Release 85136)
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