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  • MSL – Launch Pictures

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    Pictures from this morning’s launch of MSL (captured from NASA TV)

  • Mars Science Laboratory – Curiosity

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    This morning the massive Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) launched torwards Mars.  Scheduled to land in August 2012 the rover will bring a host of scientific instruments to the planet and continue the exploration that started in 1975 with the Viking landers. Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) By far the largest rover every launched to another planet…

  • Mars Exploration Rovers

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    Tomorrow NASA will be launching the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) to begin an eight month journey to the red planet.  Today we take a look at it’s predecessors the highly successful Mars Exploration Rovers. Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Launched in 2003 the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity were sent to explore the surface and geology…

  • Risky Business

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    As I said yesterday we could learn a lot from Russia and how they handled the Progress accident in August, however it would be remiss of me not to talk about the Phobos-Grunt mission that is currently stuck in low earth orbit (LEO) and not communicating. There can be no doubt that space missions are…