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Two 1,200-pound (520-kilogram) spacecraft built by Rocket Lab in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory have arrived in Florida for launch to Mars. The
Two 1,200-pound (520-kilogram) spacecraft built by Rocket Lab in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory have arrived in Florida for launch to Mars. The launch will occur no earlier than October during the maiden flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket.
New Zealand engineer Peter Beck’s company Rocket Lab, known primarily for its Electron rocket, could be a potential low-cost spacecraft maker for exploring deep space during a mission to the Red Planet.
The truth is that trips to Mars have traditionally been expensive: while the 2005 and 2013 missions each cost NASA more than $0.5 billion, the ESCAPADE expedition, which will study the interaction of the solar wind with the Red Planet’s atmosphere, cost just $55 million (excluding start-up costs).
The journey of the two spacecraft, named Blue and Gold after the flowers of the University of California, Berkeley, covers an 11-month flight to the Red Planet, 370 million kilometers away.
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