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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is a mobile robot that will go to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice that could eventually be harvested to sustain human exploration on the Moon, Mars — and beyond. VIPER represents the first resource mapping mission on another celestial body.
Height 70.00 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 26700 kg
Liftoff Thrust 22819 kN
Diameter 12.20 Meters
Mass To LEO 63800 kg
Liftoff Mass 1400 Tonnes
Launch Success 9
Consecutive Success 9
Maiden Flight 2018-02-06
Launch Failures 0
spacevogel
2022-07-18T20:56:45+0000
Mission delayed due to NASA's request for additional lander tests
2024-03-26T23:08:52+0000
SpaceNews
2022-07-19T11:10:10+0000
SpaceNews
2021-09-21T16:59:34+0000
NASASpaceflight
2021-09-21T11:31:34+0000
SpaceNews
2021-09-20T20:11:00+0000
NASA
2021-09-20T20:11:00+0000
NASA
2021-09-16T14:11:00+0000
NASA