NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission could have been a major breakthrough in assessing the habitability of the Red Planet. Unfortunately, however, it has effectively been cancelled, as the U.S.
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NASA’s 2026 budget looked stable - but Mars sample return was put on ice
Congress largely rejected the massive NASA cuts proposed earlier in 2025 and approved a fiscal year 2026 budget that kept ...
Only companies that worked on the Mars Sample Return program need apply, narrowing the field to a handful of space industry heavyweights. NASA is looking for ways to improve the communications network ...
NASA is reserving a small amount of space on a Mars telecommunications spacecraft for science, which could be one or more ...
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the Tianwen 3, a daring Mars sample return mission to launch in 2028 ...
The loss of MAVEN in December has added urgency to NASA’s Mars Telecommunication Network contest. Credit: NASA COLORADO SPRINGS—Lockheed Martin, one of several space companies vying for NASA’s Mars ...
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