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NASA Taps Blue Origin for Mars Communications Network

NASA Taps Blue Origin for Mars Communications Network

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NASA awarded Blue Origin a firm-fixed-price contract, worth up to approximately $700 million, to develop the agency's Mars Telecommunications Network. The system is intended to provide reliable, high-bandwidth communications and navigation services for current and future Mars missions, with Blue Origin delivering a high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiter to NASA.

NASA selected Blue Origin to develop NASA’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-gen comms system for the Red Planet. The post NASA Taps Blue Origin for Mars Communications Network appeared first on Payload .

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