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The launch of the Psyche asteroid mission this week marks a new stage for NASA ; It is the opening act of five launches that the space agency has booked for the coming years with SpaceX's heavy-lift rocket.
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NASA's next missions with Falcon Heavy
These Falcon Heavy flights will span NASA 's entire portfolio of robotic space missions , sending probes to the depths of the Solar System, deploying a flagship-class astronomical observatory, sending up a weather satellite, and launching the cornerstone of NASA's Gateway mini space station. NASA around the Moon.
The launch of the asteroid explorer Psyche , scheduled for Thursday from Launch Complex A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, kicks off. "We have been preparing for this for several years and have benefited from SpaceX's manifesto. They have launched four Falcon Heavy since last November," stated Tim Dunn, NASA launch director based at the Florida spaceport.
In total, we know of up to Falcon Heavy missions under contract with SpaceX . Five of them are firm contracts with NASA's Launch Services Program, an office that acquires launch services for the agency's robotic space missions, combining payloads with commercial rockets. Highlighted on this list is Europa Clipper, a $ billion mission led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa , an ocean world that may harbor environments conducive to life.
One of the Falcon Heavy rockets flying soon is for the US Space Force , and Astrobotic has reserved two Falcon Heavy flights for commercial lunar landers that will carry NASA experiments to the lunar surface. There are two more Falcon Heavy stockpiles that SpaceX could use to launch resupply ships to the Gateway lunar station, perhaps in the late s, although the status of those missions is unclear.
So it's fair to say that NASA is involved, directly or indirectly, in driving demand for nine of the Falcon Heavy missions currently in SpaceX's pipeline .
“It is an incredible capability for our nation. "We're lucky to have him," Dunn told Ars in a recent interview. "If you look at the manifesto, this is the first in a series of Falcon Heavy."
Ars Technica
This article was originally published on Ars Technica , a trusted source for techn Chinese Overseas Asia Number Data ology news, technology policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast.
NASA's next missions with Falcon Heavy
These Falcon Heavy flights will span NASA 's entire portfolio of robotic space missions , sending probes to the depths of the Solar System, deploying a flagship-class astronomical observatory, sending up a weather satellite, and launching the cornerstone of NASA's Gateway mini space station. NASA around the Moon.
The launch of the asteroid explorer Psyche , scheduled for Thursday from Launch Complex A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, kicks off. "We have been preparing for this for several years and have benefited from SpaceX's manifesto. They have launched four Falcon Heavy since last November," stated Tim Dunn, NASA launch director based at the Florida spaceport.
In total, we know of up to Falcon Heavy missions under contract with SpaceX . Five of them are firm contracts with NASA's Launch Services Program, an office that acquires launch services for the agency's robotic space missions, combining payloads with commercial rockets. Highlighted on this list is Europa Clipper, a $ billion mission led by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa , an ocean world that may harbor environments conducive to life.
One of the Falcon Heavy rockets flying soon is for the US Space Force , and Astrobotic has reserved two Falcon Heavy flights for commercial lunar landers that will carry NASA experiments to the lunar surface. There are two more Falcon Heavy stockpiles that SpaceX could use to launch resupply ships to the Gateway lunar station, perhaps in the late s, although the status of those missions is unclear.
So it's fair to say that NASA is involved, directly or indirectly, in driving demand for nine of the Falcon Heavy missions currently in SpaceX's pipeline .
“It is an incredible capability for our nation. "We're lucky to have him," Dunn told Ars in a recent interview. "If you look at the manifesto, this is the first in a series of Falcon Heavy."