And another one for FH:
Falcon Heavy customer Ovzon orders GEO satellite from SSL - SpaceNews.com
Note that this is the satellite contract that goes with the FH contract from post 34. Both contracts are contingent on OverHorizon getting financing.
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And another one for FH:
Falcon Heavy customer Ovzon orders GEO satellite from SSL - SpaceNews.com
NASA said:NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor.
The total cost for NASA to launch DART is approximately $69 million, which includes the launch service and other mission related costs.
The DART mission currently is targeted to launch in June 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. By using solar electric propulsion, DART will intercept the asteroid Didymos’ small moon in October 2022, when the asteroid will be within 11 million kilometers of Earth.
NASA’s Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will manage the SpaceX launch service. The DART Project office is located at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and is managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office in Washington.
Excellent. Let’s meetup at Vandenburg in June 2021 and watch the launch live!To SpaceX!
Considering the $69 million launch cost, how could they not... A West Coast launch in 2021.
SpaceX has won a NASA contract for the launch of the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission on a Falcon 9 in April 2021. Launch cost is $50.3 million (lower than DART, awarded in April for $69M.)
And another one for NASA. A very lightweight satellite but probably going on a reused booster with that low launch cost. Or possibly approved for a rideshare with some other satellite...
It's both crazy high and crazy low. You wouldn't normally use something as capable as a Falcon 9 for a launch like this, so it's very expensive compared to a much smaller rocket like Electron (note: haven't checked if that is capable or not, but there are others out there that could certainly do it). But it's also very cheap for a Falcon 9 launch of any kind. Maybe they get the discount for allowing piggyback loads (more Starlink?).Lol! I was thinking it was a crazy high price!
So SpaceX lost the FH Ovzon launch to Ariane. The speculation is that Ariane gave them a sweetheart deal.
certainly the schedule for Ariane is more reliable than FH
Why is that so? just curious..
With SpaceX taking a lot of the business based on price, Ariane should be able to launch you exactly when you want.
SpaceX just announced preset guaranteed monthly small sat ride share. $1 million for a 200kg sat, $5k per additional kg.
SpaceX/smallsat