MRO to help fill in for canceled telecom orbiter

Following the recent cancellation of NASA's Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, the upcoming Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is poised to play a larger role in relaying science data from future Mars missions back to Earth, according to program officials. Originally scheduled for launch in 2009, MTO was to...

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