SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy again and again we had the beautiful double rocket booster landing. SpaceX Falcon Heavy is the rocket that is lifting the biggest and most important missions for NASA.
There have been 10 out of 10 Successful Falcon Heavy double booster recoveries.
Three of the next 6 Falcon Heavy launches over two years will be for major NASA missions. The next one will be to send the Europa Clipper to Jupiter's moon Europa.
NASA's Europa Clipper will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could have conditions suitable for life. The mission will send a highly capable, radiation-tolerant spacecraft into a long, looping orbit around Jupiter to perform repeated close flybys of the icy moon.
In early 2025, SpaceX will launch the first two modules of the new Lunar Gateway. The Gateway is planned to be the first space station beyond low Earth orbit. The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a space station which Artemis program participants plan to assemble in an orbit near the Moon. The Gateway is intended to serve as a communication hub, science laboratory, and habitation module for astronauts.
The launch at the end of 2025 will put up the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Roman was recommended in 2010 by the United States National Research Council Decadal Survey committee as the top priority for the next decade of astronomy.
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