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NASA’s $700 Million Mars Network — Why Rocket Lab Is at the Front of the Line

Mars exploration is heating up. NASA eyes sample returns and crewed landings by the 2030s, but its current relay satellites -- some decades past design life -- struggle with data traffic from rovers, ...
Ars Technica

NASA will launch a Mars mission on Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket

The first flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket seems to have a payload. Instead of launching a sports car, as SpaceX did with its first Falcon Heavy rocket, Jeff Bezos’s space company will likely ...
SpaceNews

Rocket Lab announces large launch contract and plans to acquire space robotics company

Rocket Lab highlighted progress on Neutron during its May 7 earnings call, including testing of the rocket's Archimedes engine. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab announced May 7 the largest ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft uses Mars as a giant slingshot toward a mysterious metal world

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 ...
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NASA’s $700 million Mars network — why Rocket Lab is at the front of the line

Rocket Lab (RKLB) won a $390,936 NASA study contract for Mars telecommunications architecture and is competing to build a $700 million dedicated communications network supporting sample returns and ...