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NASA's new Mars mission: These twin satellites could reveal how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere

Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together to help reveal how the Red Planet lost its thick atmosphere and liquid ...
Earth.com

NASA's newest mission hopes to learn how and why Mars became a dead planet

NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry ...
Orlando Sentinel

Mars-bound satellites arrive to KSC ahead of Blue Origin launch

A pair of Mars-bound satellites are back at Kennedy Space Center a year after NASA bowed out of its chance to be part of the debut launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn. The satellites for the ...
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From NASA's first lunar excursion in 50 years to first Starships aimed at Mars—launches scheduled for 2026

NASA's return to the Moon and crew launch to the ISS. NASA’s highly anticipated Artemis II mission will mark humanity's first ...
ExtremeTech

NASA Eyes $700 Million Mars Communication Satellite Ahead of Future Manned Missions

NASA has announced plans to procure a new communications satellite that would orbit Mars and transmit data to and from the Red Planet. The proposed price tag is $700 million, representing close ...
The Daily Californian

UC Berkeley researchers lead NASA mission to send ‘Blue and Gold’ satellites to Mars

On Thursday 3:55 p.m. EST, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission, led by UC Berkeley researchers, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, en route to ...

Lightning on Mars? Scientists believe they've detected its crackling sounds on the red planet

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...
Sun Sentinel

NASA, NOAA space weather satellites to launch under cloud of Trump’s science hit list

Despite President Trump seeking to cut NASA’s science mission budget nearly in half, the agency is set to send up its latest hardware to study space weather. NASA and the National Oceanic and ...