India, Feb. 24 -- NASA has announced that it selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth.
The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded to Elon Musk's Texas-based aerospace manufacturing company under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity NASA Launch Services II contract.
The U.S. space agency estimates a total cost of approximately $100 million for the launch service is. The NEO Surveyor mission is targeted to launch no earlier than September 2027 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida.
The NEO Surveyor mission consists of a single scientific instrument: an al...