NASA has selected 9 companies to conduct early-stage studies of concepts for commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGSscience missions. These studies, focusing on areas like payload delivery and communications, aim to establish a new paradigm for cost-effective, frequent Mars missions through public-private partnerships.
NASA’s Mars Exploration Program initiated the request for proposals to help establish a new paradigm for missions to Mars with the potential to advance high-priority science objectives. Many of the selected proposals center on adapting existing projects currently focused on the Moon and Earth to Mars-based applications.
Impulse Space, Inc., Redondo Beach, California — adapt an Earth-vicinity orbital transfer vehicle United Launch Services , LLC, Centennial, Colorado — modify an Earth-vicinity cryogenic upper stageMars surface-imaging servicesRedwire Space, Inc.
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