Mars InSight’s Mole Has Partially Backed Out of Its Hole “After making progress over the past several weeks digging into the surface of Mars, InSight’s mole has backed about halfway […]
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Mars InSight Gets Green Light for 2018 With Costs Still Unknown
NASA Targets May 2018 Launch of Mars InSight Mission “NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to study the deep interior of Mars is targeting […]
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NASA Will Not Be Launching InSight To Mars in 2016
Keith’s 10:15 am note: NASA sources report that NASA SMD has decided to cancel the launch of Mars InSight in 2016 due to problems with the French seismometer. There is […]
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InSight Arrives At Launch Site Early
Lockheed Martin Delivers NASA’s InSight Spacecraft to Launch Site “InSight was previously scheduled to ship to California in early January, but delivery was moved three and a half weeks early […]
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Payload Problems May Delay Mars InSight Launch (Update)
Keith’s 3 Dec 10:33 am ET note: Consideration is being given to delaying the launch of NASA’s Mars InSight lander mission. The problem has to do with the French seismometer. […]
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Confusion About Future NASA Landers on Mars
Proposed Mars Mission Has New Name “A proposed Discovery mission concept led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to investigate the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets by studying […]
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JPL's InSight: Ignoring The Real Costs – and its MPL Heritage
Keith’s note: According to the official web page for the proposed InSight mission to Mars at NASA JPL: “The InSight mission will fly a near-duplicate of the Mars lander that […]