{"id":58101,"date":"2021-02-10T23:34:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-snags-332m-falcon-heavy-contract-for-nasa-gateway-mission\/"},"modified":"2021-02-10T23:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:34:51","slug":"spacex-snags-332m-falcon-heavy-contract-for-nasa-gateway-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-snags-332m-falcon-heavy-contract-for-nasa-gateway-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Snags $332M Falcon Heavy Contract for NASA Gateway Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>NASA<\/b> has chosen <b>SpaceX<\/b>\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch elements of the Gateway, which will be the first long-term orbit outpost of the Moon. The contract, worth $331.8 million, is for a set for May 2024. The launch will take off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mission will carry NASA\u2019s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO). The PPE, built by <strong>Maxar Technologies<\/strong>, is a solar electric propulsion spacecraft that also will provide power, high-speed communications, attitude control, and move the Gateway to different lunar orbits. The HALO, built by <b>Northrop Grumman<\/b>, is the pressurized living quarters where astronauts who visit the Gateway will work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA, the Gateway will serve as a rendezvous point for Artemis astronauts traveling to lunar orbit aboard Orion prior to transit to Low-Lunar Orbit and the surface of the Moon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <b>Intuitive Machines<\/b> selected SpaceX to launch its NASA-backed IM-2 Polar Mission to the Moon on a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX will launch both of Intuitive Machine\u2019s NASA payload deliveries. In addition, NASA awarded SpaceX a contract last week to launch its SPHEREx astrophysics mission on a Falcon 9 rocket in a mission set for 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has chosen SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch elements of the Gateway, which will be the first long-term orbit outpost of the Moon. The contract, worth $331.8 million, is for a set for May 2024. The launch will take off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.&nbsp; The mission will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}