NASA Awards SpaceX Planetary Defense Mission Launch Contract

Near-Earth Object Surveyor

Credit: NASA
NASA has awarded SpaceX a $100 million fixed-price contract for the launch of the agency’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor, an infrared space observatory developed to advance the detection, characterization and tracking of potentially hazardous asteroids and comets. A Falcon 9 Launch of the $1.6 billion...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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