NASA Signs New Contract with SpaceX

as known NASA now makes agreements with commercial companies to develop rockets for use in space travel and research. Instead of dealing with and spending money on developing its own rockets, the space agency negotiates with companies through tenders and gives it to themselves. to manufacture rockets to companies millions of dollars it pays.

Founded by Elon Musk, the head of companies that prepare rockets for NASA SpaceX is coming. In recent months, SpaceX has won a tender opened by NASA. Jeff Bezos and Bezos sued the case. had lost. After all this, NASA and SpaceX made another agreement and agreed with SpaceX for five more manned flights to carry out regular flights to space until 2030 without any problems. According to the news today, SpaceX and NASA signed another giant agreement.

SpaceX will launch rockets from NASA’s space center in 2026

NASA announced that it has signed a contract with SpaceX to provide launch services for its next space telescope mission. According to the space agency 2.4 meters around Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope It is scheduled to launch in October 2026. According to the contract, SpaceX will deliver the telescope from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Falcon Heavy He will launch it on his rocket.

NASA estimates that the cost of launching the mission, including launch services and extra costs, is approximately cost 255 million dollars waiting. of the James Webb Telescope The signing of this agreement immediately after the completion of its mission shows that NASA and SpaceX want to continue their space studies without interruption. The 6.5-metre Webb telescope had captured color images of ancient galaxies and new stars after it took two weeks to emerge on its own in space.

NASA expects the mission to take five years

NASA announced that the Roman telescope will be sent into space about five years later to study dark energy, dark matter, galaxies and exoplanets orbiting a star outside the solar system. According to scientists, this research unanswered questions in cosmology It will help you find the answer.

NASA’s telescope in space for five years He said that the work is expected to continue and the task can be extended for another five years. The agency says the telescope was previously called the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, but due to his work at NASA, Dr. She also revealed that she was renamed Nancy Grace Roman.

SpaceX, on the other hand, did not make any statements about the contract with NASA. The reason for this is thought to be more time for the telescope to start working and problems with other companies before.