NASA Studying Hybrid Orbiter For 2013 Mars Launch

NASA is studying a hybrid Mars orbiter that would combine science instruments and a communications relay to support future missions to the red planet. Launch of the as-yet-unnamed spacecraft would come in 2013, meaning development would have to begin in earnest in 2007 or 2008, according to Doug...

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