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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Won A Major NASA’s Jupiter Mission Contract

Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s recently won a NASA contract for Jupiter moon mission. Falcon Heavy will be heading to Europa the sixth-largest moon.

SpaceX’s rocket Falcon Heavy will be used for the trip, this spacecraft can carry a weight equal to nearly 141,000 pounds.

The company describes it as “a mass greater than a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers, crew, luggage, and fuel.”

SpaceX rocket launch Jupiter

Scientists are still carrying studies on the Europa moon, this mission begins in October 2024, the entire will cost $178 million.
Nasa in a statement about picking SpaceX said
“Key mission objectives are to produce high-resolution images of Europa’s surface,
“determine its composition, look for signs of recent or ongoing geological activity,
“measure the thickness of the moon’s icy shell, search for subsurface lakes, and determine the depth and salinity of Europa’s ocean,”
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Recently, Musk’s rocket company launched 88 satellites on Wednesday this week. Following this huge one-day launch, the total satellites launch this year to about 900 according to a report by the Verge.

SpaceX and Nasa Satellite blasts off
SpaceX Satellite Launch

 

SpaceX’s ideology for the rocket launching business is to have re-usable rockets launch satellites ultimately eliminating millions of dollars in binding new ones.

 

Brief Video of SpaceX rocket landing
Brief Video of the rocket landing

 

The Falcon 9 rocket went off at 3.31 PM ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and also returned to Earth about 10 minutes after at Spacex Landing Zone 1. The SmallSat Rideshare Program is geared at offering small satellite rides to space for an entry price of $1 million, Wednesday’s mission was the second for this program.

Ideally, these rides are for companies looking to launch communication satellites or Earth observation.

 

Musk’s Startup Starlink has its satellite terminals launched through this program; its frequency is to make the internet service broadband readily available worldwide.

 

 

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