Posted on 02/08/2022 9:04:51 AM PST by BenLurkin
The agency said Feb. 7 it awarded a contract valued at up to $194 million to Lockheed to develop the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), an essential element of the overall Mars Sample Return campaign being developed by NASA and the European Space Agency.
The MAV will be transported to Mars on a NASA-led Sample Retrieval Lander, which will also carry an ESA-developed rover. That rover will pick up samples of Martian rock and regolith cached by Perseverance and return them to the lander. Perseverance may also return some samples to the lander on its own.
Those samples will be loaded into a container on the MAV, which will then lift off and place the container in orbit around Mars. An ESA-led Earth Return Orbiter will grab the container using a NASA-provided system and return it to Earth.
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I can save them a lot of money. There is and never was life on Mars.
I can save them a lot of money. There is and never was life on Mars.
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Most likely. But we need the Wuhan Lab to verify so I assume they will get a share of the Mars sample.
Ping.
Just as long as the retirement check keeps showing up.
Not even the girl with the mousy hair.
“to develop”
IOW: 10 years and 100 billion dollars in the future.
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