NASA counting on extended orbiter life for Mars missions
NASA is requiring future Mars orbiters to have longer lifetimes so they can serve as high-bandwidth relay stations for ground-based rovers and landers even after their main science missions are complete. G. Scott Hubbard, NASA's Mars program director in the Office of Space Science, said the Mars...
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