JPL – Spaceflight Now

January 28, 2022

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[ January 27, 2022 ] Live coverage: SpaceX scrubs launch of Italian radar satellite Falcon 9
[ January 27, 2022 ] SpaceX gives converted Falcon Heavy side booster new life Falcon 9
[ January 26, 2022 ] SpaceX ready to launch Italian radar remote sensing satellite Falcon 9
[ January 26, 2022 ] NASA to name astronauts this year for first Artemis moon mission Mission Reports
[ January 25, 2022 ] Photos: Atlas 5 rocket flies on ULA’s first mission of 2022 Atlas 5

NASA eyes ion engines for Mars orbiter launching in 2022

March 3, 2015

NASA officials want the agency’s next Mars orbiter to pull double duty as a communications relay station for a fleet of surface landers and as a trailblazer for a future round-trip sample return mission and human expeditions to the red planet.

Rover data suggest Mars crater once contained long-lived lake

December 10, 2014

Scientists analyzing imagery from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover believe sediments left by an ancient lake more than three billion years ago formed a towering mountain that is set to be the robot’s research subject for the rest of its mission on the red planet.