NASA Buys Falcon Heavy To Launch First Gateway Modules

NASA
The Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE).
Credit: NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA on Feb. 9 awarded SpaceX a $331 million contract for Falcon Heavy launch and support services to send the first two modules of its planned Gateway outpost toward lunar orbit. Integrated into a single payload, the Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), built by Maxar, and...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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