Mars 2022 – Spaceflight Now

March 28, 2023

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[ March 26, 2023 ] Indian launch gives OneWeb enough satellites for global internet service GSLV
[ March 25, 2023 ] Live coverage: India’s LVM3 rocket lifts off with 36 more OneWeb satellites GSLV
[ March 24, 2023 ] Falcon 9 deploys 56 Starlink satellites on SpaceX’s 20th launch of the year Falcon 9
[ March 24, 2023 ] Live coverage: Rocket Lab launches BlackSky satellites from New Zealand Mission Reports
[ March 24, 2023 ] Live coverage: SpaceX launches 56 more Starlink internet satellites Falcon 9

NASA developing plans for commercially-built Mars orbiter

July 27, 2016 Stephen Clark

NASA is advancing a plan to send a robotic orbiter to Mars in the early 2020s, developing designs with five U.S. satellite makers for a mission to extend high-resolution mapping capabilities, telecommunications relay functions, and potentially act as a waypoint for Martian soil samples destined for return to Earth.

NASA eyes ion engines for Mars orbiter launching in 2022

March 3, 2015 Stephen Clark

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.