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This is a SpaceX contract

• apawloski 2y ago
  The launch vehicle is SpaceX, but the science and mission operations are NASA/JPL.
  • BHSPitMonkey 2y ago
    And to add to that, DOGE has been known to cancel contracts where the money has already been paid (so we're effective paying for nothing); SpaceX already has what it needs from this contract and has nothing to lose by cancelling the mission now.
• dylan604 2y ago
  SpaceX might be the one that takes it to orbit, but that's the end of their involvement. It would be one of the NASA run locations that would be controlling the craft, receiving the data, analyzing the data, etc. The JWST is not a French contract just because it caught a ride on an Ariane rocket. To call that a SpaceX contract is a very myopic view.