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  • NASA OKs May 2018 Launch Date for Lockheed-Built InSight Mars Lander - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA OKs May 2018 Launch Date for Lockheed-Built InSight Mars Lander

    NASA‘s science mission directorate has cleared the space agency’s new plan to launch a Lockheed Martin-built robotic spacecraft May 5, 2018 as part of efforts to investigate the deep interior of Mars. The agency said Friday it expects the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander to reach the Red Planet by Nov. 26, 2018. “Our robotic scientific explorers […] More

  • NASA Issues Solicitation for Mars Orbiter Design Ideas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Issues Solicitation for Mars Orbiter Design Ideas

    NASA is asking industry for ideas on how to build satellite technology for advanced communications, imaging and robotic science exploration as part of the agency’s Journey to Mars project. The agency said Friday it aims to launch a Mars orbiter sometime in the 2020s that will work to facilitate bandwidth communications, high-resolution imaging and radio-frequency data transmission. “Currently, we depend on our orbiting science missions […] More