Tag: Mars 2022
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NASA developing plans for commercially-built Mars orbiter
An artist’s illustration of one potential design for NASA’s new Mars orbiter, which could launch as soon as 2022. Credit: NASA NASA is advancing a plan to send a robotic orbiter to Mars in the early 2020s, developing designs with five U.S. satellite makers for a mission to extend high-resolution mapping capabilities, telecommunications relay functions,…
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NASA eyes ion engines for Mars orbiter launching in 2022
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission captured this image of the red planet soon after arriving in September 2014. Credit: ISRO NASA officials want the agency’s next Mars orbiter to pull double duty as a communications relay station for a fleet of surface landers and as a trailblazer for a future round-trip sample return mission and human…