Rocket Lab has been selected by NASA as the provider for a small satellite mission to the same lunar orbit targeted for Gateway.
Gateway is an orbiting outpost that astronauts would visit before descending to the surface of the Moon in a landing system as part of NASA’s Artemis program.
The firm-fixed-price launch contract was valued at $15.4 million (US$9.95m), according to a NASA press release.
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