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قالت إدارة الطيران والفضاء الأميركية (ناسا)، إنه تم منح شركة الصواريخ الخاصة «سبيس إكس»، التي يملكها إيلون ماسك، عقداً قيمته 178 مليون دولار، لإطلاق أول مهمة لـ«ناسا» تركز على القمر الجليدي «يوروبا» لكوكب المشتري، وما إذا كانت تتوافر فيه ظروف مناسبة للحياة.
وقالت «ناسا»، في بيان نُشر على الإنترنت، إنه من المقرر أن يطلق صاروخ «فالكون هيفي»، التابع لشركة «سبيس إكسبلوريشن تكنولوجيز»، التي يملكها ماسك، المهمة «يوروبا كليبر» من مركز كنيدي للفضاء، التابع لـ«ناسا» في ولاية فلوريدا الأميركية. ويمثل العقد أحدث تصويت بالثقة من «ناسا» في ال
NASA hands SpaceX contract for first mission to Jupiter s moon Europa
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SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images)
launch services contract for the Earth s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Europa.
The Europa Clipper mission is set for October 2024 and NASA said in a Friday release that the spacecraft will launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The contract award is
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discovered first by famed astronomer Galileo Galilei – shows strong evidence for an ocean of salty water beneath the planet s crust, thought to contain twice as much water as Earth’s oceans combined.
July 25, 2021 by archyde
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24/07/2021 – 22:56 NASA announced on Friday July 23 that it had chosen SpaceX for its planned trip to Europe, the icy moon of Jupiter. A major victory for the company of billionaire Elon Musk who aims to venture further into the solar system.
The objective of the mission, which is to be launched in 2024 is to determine whether this sort of “ icy moon Of Jupiter may harbor conditions conducive to life.
It is in any case a major victory for the company of Elon Musk. Certainly, the billionaire dreams of venturing even further into the solar system, and especially of
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Flacon Heavy was launched 3 times to date and is known as one of the most powerful rockets ever made. Not only the rocket is strong but has the ability to lift twice the payload of the closest operational vehicle. SpaceX’s current launches of Starlink and crew-dragon to the space orbit were from Flacon 9. And the Flacon Heavy rocket has three Falcon 9 engines forming 27 Merlin engines. Together they produce over 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.
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Falcon Heavy will be launched from the historic launchpad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The agency stated in a press conference, “The total contract award amount for launch services is approximately $178 million.” NASA would be saving $2 billion by sending SpaceX Falcon Heavy to the Jovian system.