NASA's Launch Services Program
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Earth's Bridge to Space✨NASA’s provider of a commercial launch experience, matching spacecraft to launch vehicles since 1998! 🚀Up Next: IMAP/SWFO-L1/Carruthers
Joined August 2008
🛰️ Since 1998, LSP has been bringing together those with a payload needing a ride to space with commercial launch vehicle providers.🚀 . LSP works to ensure mission success by managing the overall process and assuring the rocket will work correctly to deliver a healthy spacecraft
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📅🍁The calendar may say summer, but LSP is counting down for our next two missions this fall!. We are excited to add IMAP (KSC) and Sentinel-6B (VSFB) to our LSP list!.From October 1998 through today, we have managed the launch service for:. 🚀55 missions from CCSFS, FL .🚀43.
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📢 Important update: This X account will soon be archived. You can find all the latest news and information about NASA's Launch Services Program by following these accounts:. @NASA .@NASAKennedy .@NASASpaceOps.
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NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) has moved to its new workspace! ☀️✨. On May 29th, technicians unboxed IMAP and placed it into a pristine clean room. Learn more as preparations to chart the boundaries of the heliosphere continue!👇
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IMAP is targeting launch NET September aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9!.
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RT @NASAEarth: Not all waves crash on beaches. Some travel down rivers and can cause flooding in nearby towns. For the first time, scientis….
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🚀 #ICYMI: PREFIRE celebrated its one year launch-iversary yesterday!. The PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission launched its first CubeSat on May 25, 2024 and the second less than 2 weeks later from New Zealand aboard a @RocketLab Electron rocket!
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RT @NASAEarth: Small features, big science! 🌊. Data from the SWOT satellite reveals how small ocean features, some just a mile across, may….
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🚀Happy launch-iversary month, TROPICS!. In May 2023, NASA and @RocketLab successfully launched twice from New Zealand, placing four CubeSats into orbit. Together, they form the TROPICS constellation – designed to monitor tropical cyclones with speed and precision.
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🦅 @NASAKennedy consists of approximately 140,000 acres of land and lagoon waters and is home to more than sixty federal and state-listed endangered and threatened animal and plant species. These include the Bald Eagle & Florida Sandhill Crane!
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NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneer Aspera has a ride to space!. The SmallSat will launch on a @RocketLab Electron rocket as a part of the agency’s VADR launch services contract and will study how galaxies form, evolve, and the hot gasses between them.
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Flyby Photo Drop! 🛰️✨. Europa Clipper took this epic thermal image during a flyby of Mars! After launching on Oct. 14, 2024, the spacecraft headed to Mars for a gravity assist to speed it on to Jupiter, where it will study Europa to see if it has the conditions to support life.
Practice run: During our spacecraft's recent high-speed pass by Mars for a gravity assist, we tested our thermal imager. Calibrating the instrument will help us get ready to use it to delve into the secrets of Europa's ice shell and what lies beneath.
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🛰🚛IMAP has arrived in Florida!. NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) arrived at Astrotech after traveling from @NASA_Marshall. IMAP will study the heliosphere and is targeting liftoff no earlier than Sept. 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
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RT @NASAEarth: Going on a trip this weekend? We’ve got the perfect podcast for the drive! 🚙. Dive into the latest episode of @nasa’s Curiou….
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