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/PRNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Nov. 4, to preview the launch of the agency's first planetary defense test...
Planetary defense mission is prepping for launch in late November aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
NASA’s Lucy mission, the agency’s first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, launched at 4:34 a.m. CDT Oct. 16 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41
The NASA Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids is expected to launch Oct. 16. Unique to this mission are the multiple ways that ASU is involved: The spacecraft is named in honor of the “Lucy” fossil discovered in 1974 by ASU's Donald Johanson; onboard is an ASU-led instrument; and watching the launch will be thousands of students who have attended the ASU-led “L’SPACE” Academy.
NASA hands SpaceX contract for first mission to Jupiter's moon Europa Published article 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 The world ...