InSight

Mars Insight Lander Will Drill Into Mars and Test for Marsquakes

Posted in Science on 28th Nov, 2018
by Alex Muller

NASA's InSight Mars lander has successfully landed on Mars.

NASA officially delays its next mission to Mars until 2018

Posted in Science on 10th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller

NASA said it is now targeting May 5th, 2018 for the launch of InSight, with the spacecraft scheduled to land on Mars on November 26th, 2018.

Faulty instrument delays Mars lander launch

Posted in Science on 23rd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA's Insight lander will miss its scheduled launch window in March 2016 due to a continuing fault with one of its primary scientific instruments.

Mars orbiter prepares for next year's InSight lander arrival

Posted in Science on 30th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

The InSight Mars lander mission may be more than a year away, but NASA is already moving its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to provide communications during the landing.

NASA will launch two interplanetary cubesats in 2016

Posted in Science on 17th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller

This will be the first time CubeSats have flown in deep space.They will provide NASA the ability to quickly transmit information about the main spacecraft after it lands on Mars.