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Old 15-11-2017, 10:31 AM
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Thumbs up NASA InSight Mars Lander being readied for launch next year

In a trifecta of science engineering news stories today, meantime,
in Colorado, engineers and technicians have also been busy.

In an article today at Scientific American, Leonard David reports on how
NASA next Mars lander is being readied for departure next year.

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Originally Posted by Leonard David, Scientific American
LITTLETON, Colo.—After expensive delays, NASA’s next mission to Mars is on track to embark next year. As spacecraft names go, this one is a mouthful: Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. At NASA, and here at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, which built the craft, it’s just called InSight.

Designed to probe the planet’s deep interior and to eavesdrop on rumbling “Marsquakes,” the InSight lander will effectively take the planet’s temperature and measure its pulse. Now in final preparations on its path to the launchpad, the spacecraft is undergoing extensive thermal and vacuum testing and attended by a swarm of bunny suit–clad technicians. (The suits should help prevent microbial hitchhikers from catching a free ride to Mars when InSight lifts off.)

That launch could come as soon as May 5, 2018, according to Scott Daniels, manager of the assembly, test and launch operations phase for InSight at Lockheed Martin. The spacecraft is on target for transport in late February next year to California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, where it will be mated with a rocket and prepared for launch. “Because we have an interplanetary launch window, it’s vital that we stay on schedule,” Daniels says. “The more [InSight] gets handled, the more likely something might go wrong. So one of my primary jobs is to make sure we get InSight off the planet as soon as possible and onto its November 26 landing on Mars.”
Full story and pictures here :-
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...toward-launch/
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Old 11-01-2021, 06:55 PM
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InSight work is extended until 2022. The expanded mission will be to create a long-term, high-quality seismic dataset of Mars.
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Old 02-04-2021, 03:03 PM
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InSight again recorded two cases of seismic activity on Mars, Marsquakes reached a magnitude of 3.3. The probe "sensed" two strong shocks of magnitude 3.3 and 3.1 in the Cerberus Fossil area earlier in March
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