Rocket Lab built a pair of small Mars science orbiters, which are awaiting a new launch date. The company is now hoping to land on Mars as well to retrieve rock and soil samples for NASA and ESA.
Credit: Rocket Lab
NASA has added Rocket Lab to the list of teams hired to study alternative architectures for returning high-priority rock and soil samples from Mars. Rocket Lab joins seven other companies, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in a NASA...
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