Amendment 51: F.13 Lunar Terrain Vehicle Instruments Program Final Text and Due Dates.

F.13 Lunar Terrain Vehicle Instruments (LTVI) program element solicits proposals for investigations that include development and flight of stand-alone, science-driven instruments substantially enabled by unpressurized mobility on the lunar surface. Payloads selected through this program element will be integrated onto the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) and then delivered with the LTV to the south polar region of the Moon (within 6o latitude of the South Pole) in advance of the Artemis V mission. After delivery, the LTV, which will be an unpressurized vehicle, will be operated telerobotically in support of science and commercial activities until the crew arrives, at which point the crew will operate the rover in support of Artemis mission objectives. Teleoperation of the LTV for science and commercial activities will resume after Artemis crew have departed.

LTV Instruments must address one or more science objectives identified in the most recently released decadal survey or equivalent community document, as appropriate for each science discipline, and mapped to science objectives defined in the Moon to Mars Strategy and Objectives Development document.

ROSES-2024 Amendment 51 releases final text for F.13 LTVI, which was previously released as draft for community comment. Proposals to this program will be submitted by a two-step process in which the Notice of Intent is replaced by a mandatory Step-1 proposal that must be submitted by an organization Authorized Organizational Representative, see Section 4. Step-1 proposals are due October 23, 2024, and Step-2 proposals are due December 23, 2024.

There will be a Pre-proposal Conference on October 8, 2024, at 3:00 pm Eastern Time, see Section 2.8 of the program element text for details. 

Significant changes to the text between draft and final are listed in on the first page of the program element text.

On or about September 23, 2024, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024" (NNH24ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024

Questions concerning F.13 LTVI, may be directed to Debra Needham at HQ-ArtemisInstruments@mail.nasa.gov.

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