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SpaceX has been selected to help NASA launch scientific payloads to an asteroid located between Jupiter and Mars as part of an estimated $117M effort to study planet collisions and metal particles in the solar system.

SpaceX has secured a potential $80.4M contract from NASA to send a satellite with the Falcon 9 rocket to space on a mission to study the oceanographic and atmospheric elements of global climate change.

SpaceX and NASA have conducted a flight test to demonstrate the performance of a spacecraft launch escape system in preparation for the Demo-2 crewed mission to the International Space Station.

Five companies have won spots on NASA’s potential $2.6B Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, bringing the total number of awardees to 14.

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer at SpaceX and a 2019 Wash100 award winner, said the company sees the U.S. Army as a potential client for its Starship space vehicle and Starlink satellite constellation, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential nine-year, $986M contract to eight companies for space launch mission support to the Department of Defense and other government agencies as part of Orbital Services Program-4.

NASA has awarded 14 companies contracts worth approximately $43.2M combined to develop technologies for the space agency’s lunar and Mars exploration programs.

A Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) space plane has recorded nearly 719 days in orbit since the U.S. Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft in September 2017 aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket from Space Coast in Florida, the Space website reported Monday.

NASA has selected 13 companies that will work with the space agency’s centers to further develop space technologies for use in future lunar and Mars exploration missions.

SpaceX conducted a free flight of its Starhopper prototype launch vehicle following a brief attempt a day earlier at the company’s south Texas-based facility, SpaceNews reported Friday.