The Martian Moons Exploration mission is due to launch in 2024 or 2025, with the objective of orbiting Mars before landing on the closer of its two moons, Phobos, collecting samples from the surface, and returning them to Earth. Canadian space-science company MDA said it’s won a contract to supply laser altimeters that will measure the probe’s distance from Phobos’s surface as the probe descends. (The Logic)
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The Martian Moons Exploration mission is due to launch in 2024 or 2025, with the objective of orbiting Mars before landing on the closer of its two moons, Phobos, collecting samples from the surface, and returning them to Earth. Canadian space-science company MDA said it’s won a contract to supply laser altimeters that will measure the probe’s distance from Phobos’s surface as the probe descends. (The Logic)
Talking point: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency mission is meant to settle the question of whether Mars’s irregularly shaped moons are asteroids that fell into planetary orbit or coalesced debris from a long-ago impact, and to test technology for an eventual return trip to Mars itself. MDA is also supplying landing sensors for four missions to our moon and is building the next Canadarm.
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