{"id":119191,"date":"2021-02-05T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/spacex-to-launch-nasa-astrophysics-mission"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:22:21","slug":"spacex-to-launch-nasa-astrophysics-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/spacex-to-launch-nasa-astrophysics-mission","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch NASA astrophysics mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-to-launch-nasa-astrophysics-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX won a NASA contract Feb. 4 to launch a small astrophysics mission, continuing its string of similar agency contracts over the last two years.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX won a NASA contract Feb. 4 to launch a small astrophysics spacecraft, continuing the company\u2019s string of similar agency contracts over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX for the launch of the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) spacecraft on a Falcon 9 in June 2024. The value of the launch contract is $98.8 million, which includes the launch itself and other \u201cmission-related costs,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX won a NASA contract Feb. 4 to launch a small astrophysics mission, continuing its string of similar agency contracts over the last two years. WASHINGTON \u2014 SpaceX won a NASA contract Feb. 4 to launch a small astrophysics spacecraft, continuing the company\u2019s string of similar agency contracts over the last two years. NASA awarded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}