SpaceX Falcon 9 GovSat-1
The Falcon 9 launch of GovSat-1 in January. SpaceX is now certified to use that rocket for NASA science missions, starting with an astronomy satellite scheduled for launch no earlier than mid-April.

NASA has certified the current version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch some categories of science missions, a milestone needed for the upcoming, but delayed, launch of an astronomy spacecraft.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...