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NASA has just two Mars Sample Return mission lander options left
The lander itself would feature a small rocket ... The estimated budget for the Mars Sample Return mission ballooned to $11 billion during 2024, and that, coupled with a return date of 2040 ...
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NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
Last year, the agency said it was revising plans for the mission due to the estimated cost and long wait time for the samples' return journey to Earth. Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept ...
NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working under the incoming Trump administration. President-elect Donald Trump ...
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NASA exploring 2 options to lower costs, speed up Mars Sample Return mission
As originally envisioned, the Mars Sample Return mission, or MSR, was the most complex robotic planetary science mission ever attempted, one requiring a new NASA sample retrieval lander ...
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NASA decision on Mars Sample Return reboot slides to 2026
NASA has set a goal to return rock and soil samples from the surface of Mars ... carry a lander and a smaller version of the MAV previously planned for the mission. The platform’s sample loading ...
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NASA will announce update to Mars sample return plans today. Here's how to listen in
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample ... the mission to return those Perseverance Mars rover samples to Earth is at a crossroads. One plan to return Perseverance's samples to Earth called for a lander ...
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NASA studies options to rein in cost of Mars Sample Return mission
After an independent review concluded NASA's plans to robotically collect and return rock and soil samples from Mars could cost up to $11 billion, NASA "pulled the plug" and is focusing on two ...
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NASA won't decide on overhaul for Mars Sample Return mission until mid-2026
Back in July 2020, for example, the maximum total cost of the Mars sample return ... The lander will then grab the sample tubes using a spare robotic arm developed for Perseverance's mission ...
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NASA narrows down to 2 options its reworked Mars Sample Return mission
NASA announced Tuesday it had narrowed down to two options the reworked Mars Sample Return mission aiming for a ... The other would be to use a heavy lander from a commercial partner such as ...
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NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
PHOTO: Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration: A Sample Retrieval Lander would launch in 2028, carrying a NASA-led Mars rocket and small Mars helicopters. (JPL-Caltech/NASA) ...
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NASA studies options to rein in cost of Mars Sample Return mission
As originally envisioned, the Mars Sample Return mission, or MSR, was the most complex robotic planetary science mission ever attempted, one requiring a new NASA sample retrieval lander ...