Redwire delivered 13 Coarse Sun Sensor detectors to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland in September 2020 for the PACE mission.
The PACE mission is managed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which built and tested the spacecraft and the ocean color instrument.
NASA’s PACE mission was developed at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland with a total cost including reserves of $964,000,000.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center managed the PACE mission and built and tested the spacecraft and the ocean color instrument.
The PACE mission requested launching from Cape Canaveral because the spacecraft team from Goddard preferred a launch site closer to Goddard, and Florida is closer to Goddard than California.
The PACE mission was previously scheduled for 2024-02-06 but the flight was delayed due to unfavorable weather conditions.
The first stage booster on the Falcon 9 supporting the PACE mission is flying for the fourth time after previously launching Crew-7, CRS-29, and one Starlink mission.
The Falcon 9 launch of NASA’s PACE mission is targeted for liftoff at 1:33 a.m. EST on Thursday, 2024-02-08 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The first stage booster supporting the PACE mission is making its fourth flight after previously launching Crew-7, CRS-29, and one Starlink mission.
Launch of the PACE mission is targeted for 1:33 a.m. EST on Tuesday, 2024-02-06 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
NASA launched the Q-PACE mission to study particle aggregation in low gravity conditions.
NASA selected a launch for the PACE mission just days before the release of the administration’s February 2020 budget proposal that sought to cancel the mission.
HARP2 will fly on NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystems (PACE) mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2023.
NASA’s fiscal year 2021 budget request sought $1,770,000,000 for Earth science, a decrease driven largely by the administration’s proposal to terminate the PACE mission.
NASA’s fiscal year 2021 budget request sought to cancel the PACE mission and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
NASA’s fiscal year 2021 budget proposal sought to cancel the PACE mission less than a week after the 2020-02-04 launch contract award.
Congress restored funding for the PACE mission after each of NASA’s fiscal year 2018, 2019, and 2020 cancellation proposals.
Congress provided $147,000,000 for the PACE mission in the omnibus spending bill approved in March 2018.
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission is planned for launch in 2022 to study ocean and atmospheric conditions.