NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida […]

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1. NASA Selects SpaceX for StarBurst Mission Launch: NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX to launch the StarBurst satellite, a SmallSat mission focused on detecting high-energy gamma-ray bursts from neutron star mergers.
2. Top 3 Most Frequent Gamma-Ray Burst Detectors: Historically, these three orbital observatories have been the primary tools for identifying and characterizing the highest-energy explosions in the universe.
3. Top 3 SpaceX SmallSat Rideshare Milestones: Since the inception of the Transporter and Bandwagon programs, SpaceX has fundamentally lowered the cost and increased the cadence of SmallSat launches.

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