WASHINGTON — Scientists involved with several ongoing Mars missions are warning that a budget proposal that would end one mission and curtail operations of others could disrupt NASA's broader Mars exploration architecture.
NASA's fiscal year 2021 budget request, released in February, proposed terminating the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, which received $11.5 million in fiscal year 2019, and cutting funding for the Curiosity rover by more than 20% from 2019 levels to $40 million.
Many things are taking place:
How NASA's Perseverance Mars Team Adjusted to Work in the Time of Coronavirus – NASA's Mars
Portraits in Perseverance: With the launch period for the Perseverance mission opening July 17, 2020, members of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover project continue the mission's march to the launch pad while working from their home offices during the coronavirus outbreak.
Like much of the rest of the world, the Mars rover team is pushing forward with its mission-critical work while putting the health and safety of their colleagues and community first.
From the moment the mission began in 2013, the women and men working on what would become NASA's Perseverance Mars rover knew they'd encounter unexpected challenges on their way to Mars. After all, no NASA mission to the surface of the Red Planet has done otherwise. But with its launch period opening on July 17, the team, like much of the rest of the world, is pushing forward with its mission-critical work while putting the health and safety of their colleagues and community first.
UAE Mars mission to ship to launch site - SpaceNews.com
WASHINGTON — A Mars orbiter developed by the United Arab Emirates will ship to its launch site in Japan this week, its launch preparations affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Emirates Mars Mission, an orbiter also known as Hope, is scheduled to launch on an H-2A rocket from Japan during a three-week launch window that opens July 14. The spacecraft will go into orbit around Mars in early 2021 to study the Martian atmosphere.
Preparation for the launch had been going well, Omran Sharaf, project director for the mission, said in an April 17 presentation at an online meeting of NASA's Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG). The spacecraft completed environmental testing in the United States last December and was then transported to Dubai for a final set of tests.
Fleets of ... aircraft could explore Mars - Futurity
Despite weighing about a third of a milligram, engineers are now testing their "nanocardboard flyers" ability to lift payloads. In this artist's conception, fleets of flyers could be launched from ground-based rovers and steered with lasers to collect samples. Planets and moons with thin atmospheres and low gravities would enhance these flyers' ability to levitate by shooting air through their corrugated channels. (Credit: Penn)
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This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover , Perseverance, which will carry with it the first aircraft to ever fly on another planet, the Mars Helicopter. As the first of its kind, the Mars Helicopter will carry no instruments and collect no data—NASA describes merely flying it at all as “high-risk, high-reward” research .
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Mars Calls for a New Plan by Holiday Mathis – Boston Herald
It’s the last day of Mars in Capricorn and an excellent time to review issues of power, leadership and control. How have you influenced others? What tools have been working for you? How well have you been able to steer your own actions and keep on track with your goals? Mars favors adjustments to plan and approach.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Everyone has a different emotional reality. You’ll listen until you understand another person. If you don’t quite get there, you’re already a million miles closer to resolution than people who try other tactics.
'Wake Up on Mars' Review: A Heartbreaking Refugee Doc Hobbled By Twist | IndieWire
Those circumstances make up the ostensible aim of Gjinovci’s truncated look inside a struggling family, which generously let the documentarian inside some of their most personal struggles. While Furkhan dreams of a spaceship, his parents dream of something else: that his sisters wake up. In 2007, the Demiri family fled Kosovo after being consistently attacked for their ethnicity. Three years later, they were deported.
Via a series of voiceovers from both Furkhan and from his parents, “Wake Up on Mars” unspools the wrenching story of what happened to Ibadeta and Djeneta, a trauma-induced malady recognized among the younger members of a growing refugee population. It’s as if they are hibernating from their fear and pain, and nothing their family can do — even dream as big as Furkhan — can pull them out of it.
Trailblazing Mars helicopter attached to Perseverance rover for July launch | Space
Technicians attached the first-of-its-kind Mars Helicopter to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover on Monday (April 6) at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the robot is being prepped for its upcoming launch. That liftoff will take place during a three-week window that opens on July 17.
Prep work on the rover is officially in high gear. For example, over a four-day span in late March, mission team members finished installing Perseverance's parachute system and also put on the robot's six wheels .
SpaceX's Mars city has come a step closer after a series of NASA missions
The SpaceX CEO took to Twitter to decry his company's slow rate of progress in sending humans to Mars to set up a city. The firm is currently working on the Starship, a fully-reusable rocket designed to transport humans to Mars and beyond, which Musk noted is step one of three toward reaching this goal.
Musk also explained how the company has been working on step two of three through its existing resupply missions. The second step is orbital refilling, which will enable the Starship to refuel in space and continue its mission to the red planet.
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