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An illustration of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer IXPE spacecraft. Credit: NASACAMBRIDGE, Mass. 鈥?NASA awarded a launch contract to SpaceX July 8 for the launch of a small astrophysics mission as the company offered a Falcon 9 at a lower price than a much smaller rocket.NASA said that it selected SpaceX to launch the Imaging X- adidas samba og Ray Polarimetry Explorer IXPE mission on a Falcon 9 in April 2021 from Kennedy Space Center s Launch Complex 39A. NASA said the total cost to the agency for the launch is $50.3 million, which includes the launch itself and other mission-related costs.That cost is significantly less than a NASA contract awarded to SpaceX April 11 for the launch of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test DART mission in June 2021 from Vanden adidas samba damen berg Air Force Base in California. NASA estimated launch c nike air max osts for DART at $69 million.One factor in the lower cost is the use of a previously flown first stage booster. Agency spokesperson Tracy Young said July 8 that the Falcon Agba Mars Science Lab Completes Course Correction Maneuver
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An illustration of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer IXPE spacecraft. Credit: NASACAMBRIDGE, Mass. 鈥?NASA awarded a launch contract to SpaceX July 8 for the launch of a small astrophysics mission as the company offered a Falcon 9 at a lower price than a much smaller rocket.NASA said that it selected SpaceX to launch the Imaging X- adidas samba og Ray Polarimetry Explorer IXPE mission on a Falcon 9 in April 2021 from Kennedy Space Center s Launch Complex 39A. NASA said the total cost to the agency for the launch is $50.3 million, which includes the launch itself and other mission-related costs.That cost is significantly less than a NASA contract awarded to SpaceX April 11 for the launch of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test DART mission in June 2021 from Vanden adidas samba damen berg Air Force Base in California. NASA estimated launch c nike air max osts for DART at $69 million.One factor in the lower cost is the use of a previously flown first stage booster. Agency spokesperson Tracy Young said July 8 that the Falcon Agba Mars Science Lab Completes Course Correction Maneuver
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights crocs schneestiefel reserved. This mat air max 1 erial may n jordan3 ot be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.