NASA‘s Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, exploration spacecraft has landed on Mars with the support of Northrop Grumman-made technologies. The company said Monday it built InSight’s cruise stage and instrument heat pipes, lander diaphragm tanks and solar array assembly at facilities in Maryland and …
Read More »Peraton Helps Operate Deep Space Network in Support of NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Mission
Peraton carried out compatibility testing and validation of spacecraft and ground stations in support of the Deep Space Network that will work to track a Mars lander that lifted off Saturday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. Peraton said Wednesday it has a team of professionals that maintains and operates …
Read More »Orbital ATK Supplies Hardware Tech for ‘InSight’ Mars Lander, Atlas V Rocket
Orbital ATK produced at its Beltsville, Md.-based facility the heat pipes for a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft that took off Saturday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket in support of NASA’s Mars mission. Orbital ATK said Monday that it also produced an ultraflex solar array and diaphragm tanks for the Interior Exploration …
Read More »ULA Rocket Launches Lockheed-Built ‘InSight’ Mars Lander for NASA
A Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft for NASA‘s Mars mission lifted off Saturday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander is scheduled to reach Mars on Nov. 26 and perform scientific investigations through Nov. 24, …
Read More »Stu Spath: Lockheed Resumes Testing, Integration Work on NASA’s ‘InSight’ Mars Lander
Lockheed Martin has resumed testing and assembly work on a spacecraft at its Denver, Colorado-based facility in preparation for NASA’s upcoming Mars mission that seeks to explore the red planet’s deep interior. The Lockheed-built Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander is scheduled to launch on May …
Read More »NASA OKs May 2018 Launch Date for Lockheed-Built InSight Mars Lander
NASA‘s science mission directorate has cleared the space agency’s new plan to launch a Lockheed Martin-built robotic spacecraft May 5, 2018 as part of efforts to investigate the deep interior of Mars. The agency said Friday it expects the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander to reach the Red Planet by Nov. 26, …
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