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NASA Picks SpaceX Falcon Heavy To Launch First Gateway Station Pieces To The Moon

NASA has selected SpaceX to deliver the first two segments of the moon-orbiting Gateway space station for its upcoming Artemis program, which aims to put astronauts back on the moon. The elements will launch atop a Falcon Heavy rocket, sometime in 2024. The flight, which is the second to be awarded to SpaceX this week (the first was a contract worth $98.8 million to launch NASA’s SPHEREx…

Falcon 9 carrying Maxar 4 / WorldView 5 & 6 to orbit this evening from Kennedy Space CenterPhoto: Ed Cordero, Florida Media Now SpaceX completed a doubleheader today; not that many people saw it. At 6:13 PM, Falcon 9 lifted off out of a gloopy fog at Launch Complex 39A and lofted the Maxar 4 / WorldView 5 and WorldView 6 satellites into orbit on the second successful mission of the day for the…

As humanity looks to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, we might need a team of robots to redirect incoming sunlight to shadowed regions that would otherwise never see the light of day. Read more…