Lunar Trailblazer – Spaceflight Now

September 23, 2023

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[ September 22, 2023 ] NASA is bringing an asteroid sample back to Earth – here’s when, how and why News
[ September 22, 2023 ] Artemis 2 astronauts go to the launch pad for launch day practice News
[ September 22, 2023 ] NASA astronaut looks forward to family hugs, peace and quiet, after yearlong flight News
[ September 20, 2023 ] SpaceX launches Falcon 9 on record-breaking 17th flight for booster Falcon 9
[ September 19, 2023 ] Radar-imaging satellite lost as Rocket Lab Electron rocket suffers launch failure News

NASA selects SpaceX to launch mission studying interstellar space

September 28, 2020 Stephen Clark

NASA has awarded SpaceX a $109 million contract to launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, a NOAA space weather observatory, a robotic scout to map water on the moon, and two other ridealong payloads on a single Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in 2024.

NASA’s first interplanetary smallsats may struggle to stay under cost caps

August 5, 2019 Stephen Clark

The first set of proposals for a new class of small robotic probes NASA wants to dispatch across the solar system came in with higher cost estimates than agency officials expected, a NASA manager said Sunday.