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NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterICON Mission
10/11/2019
NASA’s 2014 contract for Pegasus to launch the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft was valued at $56.3 million, including payload processing and other services.
The Falcon 9 contract for IXPE was valued at $50.2 million, compared with the $56,400,000 value of the 2014 contract NASA awarded for the ICON launch on a Pegasus XL.
The 14 companies selected for LunA-10 are Blue Origin, CisLunar Industries, Crescent Space Services LLC, Fibertek, Inc., Firefly Aerospace, GITAI, Helios, Honeybee Robotics, ICON, Nokia of America, Northrop Grumman, Redwire Corporation, Sierra Space, and SpaceX.
In 2021 ICON was awarded a subcontract through Jacobs supporting NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate as part of NASA's Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA).
In 2022 ICON was awarded a nearly $60,000,000 Phase III contract under NASA's Small Business Innovation Research program for Project Olympus to research and develop space-based construction systems.