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The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.
Lockheed Martin is trying to position itself as a savior for many NASA missions currently facing the chopping block at the ...
Meenakshi Wadhwa was recruited from Arizona State University, where she’s been serving as director of the School of Earth and ...
NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission may get a reprieve from an unexpected source. Lockheed Martin has proposed a ...
The new test proved the capability of a new propellant that will enhance the rocket's performance, making a sample return mission from Mars increasingly viable.
Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin offered to "execute Mars Sample Return (MSR) as a firm-fixed price solution for under $3 ...
There’s really no substitute for ‘ground truth,’ and the Martian meteorites represent the only known samples from that planet.” In those words, geochemist Ralph Harvey encapsulates the scientific ...
Mars Sample Return has blown a hole in NASA’s budget, which threatens other missions that need funding. The NASA center behind the mission, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , just laid off over 500 ...
This Mars rock is up for auction at Sotheby's in New York City this week, which is why it's currently on display in the Upper ...
China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...
Mars Sample Return is among the most challenging and complex robotic missions ever attempted, requiring the largest lander ever put on Mars, which would carry a rocket to launch the samples off ...