Donna Potter helped execute the Spider program for in-space robotic assembly of spacecraft and the Psyche mission to explore an asteroid.
EscaPADE was selected by NASA in 2019 and underwent a redesign involving Photon after losing its original rideshare on the Psyche mission.
SpaceX has NASA contracts to launch the Psyche mission to the metallic asteroid Psyche in 2022 and to launch the first two elements of the lunar Gateway in 2024 on Falcon Heavy.
Janus, a pair of smallsats that will visit two binary asteroids and was selected under SIMPLEx, completed both its preliminary design review and confirmation review and remains scheduled to launch with the Psyche mission.
NASA planned in February for EscaPADE and Janus to launch as secondary payloads on a Falcon Heavy launch of the Psyche mission in July 2022.
NASA’s Psyche mission is scheduled to launch on a Falcon Heavy in the summer of 2022 and will host secondary payloads.
NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX on 2020-02-28 for the launch of the Psyche mission on a Falcon Heavy rocket.
NASA will use a Falcon Heavy to launch the Psyche mission in July 2022 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
The Key Decision Point C review set a total lifecycle cost for the Psyche mission at $996,400,000.
NASA’s Psyche mission is slated to perform a Mars fly-by in 2022.