June 5, 1998
Cooperative Agreements have been awarded to TRW and Ball Aerospace
for Constellation-X Mission Architecture Studies
Ball Aerospace and TRW have each been awarded cooperative agreements with GSFC to conduct a shared resource project that will lead to development of innovative mission concepts for Constellation-X. The specific objective of these cooperative agreements is to identify innovative mission architectures which satisfy the top level mission science objectives, provide roadmaps for key technologies and minimize overall mission cost. The awards were made in late May 1998 and the duration of the studies will be five months.
