Rocket Lab lands design contract for US Mars mission

The mission will be led by the University of California’s Berkeley space sciences laboratory.

Wed, 16 Jun 2021

Rocket Lab, the New Zealand-founded space company, has won a contract to design two of its Photon spacecraft for a mission to Mars.The mission will be led by the University of California’s Berkeley space sciences laboratory and will be a twin-spacecraft mission that will orbit Mars to observe the red planet’s “hybrid magnetosphere”, Rocket Lab said.The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (Escapade) mission is set for a 2024 launch that will be part of a rideshare launch. National Aeronautics and Sp...

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