NASA Seeks Industry Ideas for an Advanced Mars Satellite
WEBApr 21, 2016 · NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications and imaging, as well as robotic science exploration, in support of NASA’s Journey to Mars.
Educator Guide: Build a Satellite | NASA/JPL Edu
WEBMars satellites currently employ solar power. This lesson focuses on satellites, orbiting observatories that provide global context and inform future lander and rover missions. Satellites carry instruments (sometimes called “detectors,” “probes,” or “sensors”) to make their observations.
NASA Selects Six Companies to Develop Prototypes, Concepts for …
WEBAug 9, 2016 · NASA has selected six U.S. companies to help advance the Journey to Mars by developing ground prototypes and concepts for deep space habitats.
Companies describe studies to revise Mars Sample Return
WEBJul 31, 2024 · A Boeing concept for Mars Sample Return, not selected by NASA for an industry study, would use a large lander launched on an SLS to send samples directly back to Earth.
NASA Exploring Alternative Mars Sample Return Methods
WEBJun 7, 2024 · NASA is moving forward with 10 studies to examine more affordable and faster methods of bringing samples from Mars’ surface back to Earth as part of the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program.
Perseverance Rover Components - NASA Science
WEBThe Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, is based on the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover configuration, with an added science and technology toolbox. An important difference is that Perseverance can sample and cache minerals.
NASA Sets Path to Return Mars Samples, Seeks Innovative Designs
WEBApr 15, 2024 · NASA Administrator Bill Nelson shared on Monday the agency’s path forward on the Mars Sample Return program, including seeking innovative designs to return valuable samples from Mars to Earth.
The How-To Guide to Satellites: The Design Review - NASA+
WEBOct 26, 2023 · Building satellites isn’t easy. They’re complex, expensive, and not to mention hard to make! This is why whenever NASA makes a new satellite–like the MAVEN mission to Mars–its scientists and engineers do everything they can …
NASA picks 9 companies to develop Mars 'commercial services' ideas
WEBMay 2, 2024 · NASA has selected nine companies to develop concepts that could agency science missions to Mars down the road.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - Science@NASA
WEBJul 30, 2020 · Celebrate the accomplishments of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter with a vertical or horizontal poster illustration depicting the first helicopter on the Red Planet.