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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-mars-2020-rover-goes-coast-to-coast-to-prep-for-launch
ЦитироватьFeb. 12, 2020

NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Goes Coast-to-Coast to Prep for Launch


On Feb. 11, 2020, Mars 2020 Assembly, Test and Launch Operations Manager David Gruel watched as members of his team loaded NASA's next Mars rover onto an Air Force C-17 at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California. The rover was flown to Cape Canaveral, Florida, in preparation for its July launch.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA's next Mars rover has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Red Planet this July. Two Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo planes carrying the Mars 2020 rover as well as the cruise stage, descent stage and Mars Helicopter touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at about 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST) today, completing a 2,300-mile (3,700-kilometer) trip that began yesterday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

"Our rover has left the only home it has ever known," said John McNamee, Mars 2020 project manager. "The 2020 family here at JPL is a little sad to see it go, but we're even more proud knowing that the next time our rover takes to the skies, it will be headed to Mars."

Assembly, test and launch operations for Mars 2020 began in January 2018. The first piece of hardware that would become part of the rover arrived on the clean room floor of JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 a few months later.


The shipping container carrying NASA's Mars 2020 rover is readied for loading aboard an Air Force C-17 transport plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, on Feb. 11, 2020.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The rover's aeroshell — its protective covering for the trip to the Red Planet — arrived at Kennedy this past December. Early on Feb. 11, the rover, cruise stage, descent stage and mission support equipment headed in four police-escorted trucks to the U.S. Air Force's March Air Reserve Base, where they were loaded aboard the two waiting C-17s.

Within hours of arriving at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, the 11 pallets of Mars 2020 spacecraft will be transported to the same spacecraft processing facility that in 2011 handled NASA's Curiosity rover, which is currently exploring Mars' Gale Crater. Later this week, the Mars 2020 assembly, test and launch operations team will begin testing the components to assess their health following the cross-country flight.

After months of final assembly and additional testing, Mars 2020 should be enclosed in its aeroshell for the final time in late June. It will be delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 to be integrated with the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will hurl it toward Jezero Crater in early July.

Mars 2020 will collect and store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes and will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet's climate and geology, and pave the way for human exploration. Subsequent missions, currently in the planning stages, will return to Jezero Crater, gather the samples collected by Mars 2020 and return them to Earth for the sort of in-depth study that only a full-size lab can provide.

JPL is building and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 rover for NASA. NASA's Launch Services Program, based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for launch management.

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Last Updated: Feb. 12, 2020
Editor: Tony Greicius

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/mars2020/2020/02/13/mars-2020-rover-makes-its-way-to-kennedy/
https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2020/02/13/mars-2020-rover-makes-its-way-to-kennedy/
ЦитироватьMars 2020 Rover Makes its Way to Kennedy

James Cawley
Posted Feb 13, 2020 at 12:43 pm

Leaving fr om its temporary home at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, the Mars 2020 rover completed a cross-country trip Wednesday afternoon. It arrived on a C-17 aircraft to Kennedy Space Center's Launch and Landing Facility (formerly the Shuttle Landing Facility) Wednesday afternoon.

The spacecraft was then moved to Kennedy's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), wh ere it is being unboxed today. Before making the trek to the Florida spaceport, the Mars 2020 rover traveled about 70 miles southeast from JPL to March Air Reserve Base.

Carrying seven different scientific instruments, the Mars 2020 rover will land on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. Liftoff, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket, is targeted for mid-July from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA's Launch Services Program based at Kennedy is managing the launch.

About the size of a car with dimensions similar to the Curiosity rover, the Mars 2020 rover was developed under NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The mission aims to search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth and pave the way for human exploration of Mars.

Last month, multiple important tests were performed on the Mars 2020 rover aeroshell inside the PHSF, including measuring the center of gravity and moments of inertia on the spin table, as well as lift activities. The rover's heat shield and back shell arrived at Kennedy from Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, Colorado, on Dec. 11, 2019. The spacecraft was manufactured at JPL.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/02/14/mars-2020-rover-arrives-at-kennedy-space-center-for-july-launch/
ЦитироватьMars 2020 rover arrives at Kennedy Space Center for July launch
February 14, 2020 | Stephen Clark


The shipping container with the Mars 2020 rover was unloaded fr om a U.S. military cargo plane Wednesday after landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston

Two U.S. Air Force cargo planes delivered the Mars 2020 rover, cruise stage, descent module and the Mars Helicopter to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week for final assembly, fueling and mounting atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket for liftoff in July.

The military transport aircraft landed Wednesday at the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center with hardware for the $2.6 billion Mars 2020 mission, which was delivered to NASA's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the Florida spaceport for unpacking and launch preparations.

The Mars 2020 rover, cruise stage, descent package and helicopter departed NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Feb. 11 and was trucked to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, and loaded into two C-17 cargo planes.

The rover and other flight hardware components were stored inside climate-controlled containers during the 2,300-mile (3,700-kilometer) cross-country trip.

Engineers and technicians built the rover and its support hardware inside a high bay at JPL over the last two years, culminating a development program that began with the Mars 2020 mission's announcement in 2012.

"Our rover has left the only home it has ever known," said John McNamee, NASA's Mars 2020 project manager, in a statement. "The 2020 family here at JPL is a little sad to see it go, but we're even more proud knowing that the next time our rover takes to the skies, it will be headed to Mars."

Inside the PHSF clean room at the Kennedy Space Center, ground teams will test mission hardware to ensure all systems remain healthy after the cross-country flight from California to Florida.


Artist's concept of the Mars 2020 rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Technicians will load hydrazine to feed maneuvering thrusters on the cruise stage, which will fine-tune the rover's trajectory toward Mars after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on top of an Atlas 5 rocket. The Mars 2020 descent stage will also be filled with hydrazine to power braking rockets that will slow the rover before it is lowered from a "sky crane" mechanism onto the Martian surface.

The six-wheeled rover will be mated with the descent stage and the cruise stage, and enclosed inside an aerodynamic shell and heat shield by late June. The Mars 2020 aeroshell, made by Lockheed Martin, was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in a separate shipment in December.

Then the entire vehicle will be encapsulated inside the 5.4-meter (17.7-foot) diameter payload fairing of ULA's Atlas 5 launcher and transported to the Vertical Integration Facility near pad 41. Cranes will hoist the payload atop the Atlas 5 inside the vertical hangar.

One of the final pre-launch tasks before the Atlas 5 rolls out to the launch pad will be the installation of the rover's nuclear battery.

The launch window for the Mars 2020 mission opens July 17 and closes Aug. 5, when Earth and Mars are in the proper positions in the solar system to enable a direct interplanetary journey. The launch time on July 17 would be targeted for approximately 9 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT), according to NASA officials.

The Mars 2020 rover will get an official name before its July launch.

NASA invited U.S. students last year to submit essays with their ideas for a name for the rover. The space agency revealed candidates for the mission name last month, and officials will announce the final name selection in March.


Two U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane carried the Mars 2020 rover from California to Florida. Credit: NASA/Cory Huston

The Mars 2020 rover is similar in appearance to NASA's Curiosity rover, which has explored Mars since August 2012, but the Mars 2020 rover carries an upgraded suite of scientific instruments, plus mechanisms to collect, seal and store samples of powder drilled and cored from Martian rocks.

The rock specimens will be picked up by a future robotic mission to return the samples to Earth for detailed analysis. Scientists hope to find evidence of ancient life.

The Mars 2020 rover also carries a miniature flying helicopter drone, which will deploy after landing to become the first aircraft to fly in the atmosphere of another planet. It also features aluminum wheels with thicker skin and modified treads to avoid damage observed on Curiosity's wheels on Mars.

The rover will land on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, targeting touchdown inside Jezero Crater, the home of a dried-up ancient river delta wh ere evidence of ancient microbial life may be preserved from billions of years ago.

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NASA's Mars 2020 will include a laser instrument, called SuperCam, capable of vaporizing rock material and studying its composition. In a test shown here, the SuperCam Mast Unit — which sits in the mast, or "head," of the rover — zaps marks across a piece of metal. The popping sound of each laser zap will be recorded on Mars by a microphone installed along with SuperCam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rvWXCts420https://www.youtube.com/embed/-rvWXCts420 (0:26)

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/all-about-the-laser-and-microphone-atop-mars-2020-nasas-next-rover
ЦитироватьFeb. 7, 2020

All About the Laser (and Microphone) Atop Mars 2020, NASA's Next Rover


Mars 2020's mast, or "head," includes a laser instrument called SuperCam that can vaporize rock material and study the resulting plasma.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot to Mars. But unlike the lasers of science fiction, this one is used for studying mineralogy and chemistry fr om up to about 20 feet (7 meters) away. It might help scientists find signs of fossilized microbial life on the Red Planet, too.

One of seven instruments aboard the Mars 2020 rover that launches this summer, SuperCam was built by a team of hundreds and packs what would typically require several sizable pieces of equipment into something no bigger than a cereal box. It fires a pulsed laser beam out of the rover's mast, or "head," to vaporize small portions of rock from a distance, providing information that will be essential to the mission's success.

Here's a closer look at what makes the instrument so special:

A Far Reach

Using a laser beam will help researchers identify minerals that are beyond the reach of the rover's robotic arm or in areas too steep for the rover to go. It will also enable them to analyze a target before deciding whether to guide the rover there for further analysis. Of particular interest: minerals that formed in the presence of liquid water, like clays, carbonates and sulfates. Liquid water is essential to the existence of life as we know it, including microbes, which could have survived on Mars billions of years ago.

Scientists can also use the information from SuperCam to help decide whether to capture rock cores for the rover's sample caching system. Mars 2020 will collect these core samples in metal tubes, eventually depositing them at a predetermined location for a future mission to retrieve and bring back to Earth.


The Mast Unit for Mars 2020's SuperCam, shown being tested here, will use a laser to vaporize and study rock material on the Red Planet's surface.
Credits: LANL

Laser Focus

SuperCam is essentially a next-generation version of the Curiosity rover's ChemCam. Like its predecessor, SuperCam can use an infrared laser beam to heat the material it impacts to around 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit (10,000 degrees Celsius) — a method called laser induced breakdown spectroscopy, or LIBS — and vaporizes it. A special camera can then determine the chemical makeup of these rocks from the plasma that is created.

Just like ChemCam, SuperCam will use artificial intelligence to seek out rock targets worth zapping during and after drives, when humans are out of the loop. In addition, this upgraded A.I. lets SuperCam point very precisely at small rock features

Another new feature in SuperCam is a green laser that can determine the molecular composition of surface materials. This green beam excites the chemical bonds in a sample and produces a signal depending on which elements are bonded together — a technique called Raman spectroscopy. SuperCam also uses the green laser to cause some minerals and carbon-based chemicals to emit light, or fluoresce.

Minerals and organic chemicals fluoresce at different rates, so SuperCam's light sensor features a shutter that can close as quickly as 100 nanoseconds at a time — so fast that very few photons of light will enter it. Altering the shutter speed (a technique called time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy) will enable scientists to better determine the compounds present.

Moreover, SuperCam can use visible and infrared (VISIR) light reflected from the Sun to study the mineral content of rocks and sediments. This VISIR technique complements the Raman spectroscopy; each technique is sensitive to different types of minerals.

Laser With a Mic Check

SuperCam includes a microphone so scientists can listen each time the laser hits a target. The popping sound created by the laser subtly changes depending on a rock's material properties.

"The microphone serves a practical purpose by telling us something about our rock targets from a distance. But we can also use it to directly record the sound of the Martian landscape or the rover's mast swiveling," said Sylvestre Maurice of the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetary Science in Toulouse, France.

The Mars 2020 rover marks the third time this particular microphone design will go to the Red Planet, Maurice said. In the late 1990s, the same design rode aboard the Mars Polar Lander, which crashed on the surface. In 2008, the Phoenix mission experienced electronics issues that prevented the microphone from being used.

In the case of Mars 2020, SuperCam doesn't have the only microphone aboard the rover: an entry, descent and landing microphone will capture all the sounds of the car-sized rover making its way to the surface. It will add audio to full-color video recorded by the rover's cameras, capturing a Mars landing like never before.

Teamwork

SuperCam is led by Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, wh ere the instrument's Body Unit was developed. That part of the instrument includes several spectrometers, control electronics and software.

The Mast Unit was developed and built by several laboratories of the CNRS (French research center) and French universities under the contracting authority of CNES (French space agency). Calibration targets on the rover deck are provided by Spain's University of Valladolid.

JPL is building and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 rover for the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.

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Last Updated: Feb. 8, 2020
Editor: Randal Jackson

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/mars2020/2020/02/18/mars-2020-rover-undergoing-processing-at-florida-spaceport/
https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2020/02/18/mars-2020-rover-undergoing-processing-at-florida-spaceport/
ЦитироватьMars 2020 Rover Undergoing Processing at Florida Spaceport

James Cawley
Posted Feb 18, 2020 at 10:52 am


The launch of the Mars 2020 rover is targeted for mid-July. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Soon after its arrival to NASA's Kennedy Space Center last week, the Mars 2020 rover was moved to the Florida spaceport's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, where it has been undergoing processing for its mission later this year. The spacecraft was flown to Kennedy from California aboard a C-17 aircraft on Feb. 12.

Targeted for mid-July 2020, the mission will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch is managed by the Launch Services Program.

The Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth and pave the way for human exploration of Mars.

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Так как
ЦитироватьС технической точки зрения, пятый марсоход NASA будет полным наследником Curiosity...
Полагаю - актуально:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wkq_Y2I2-M
ЦитироватьNASA Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) Mission Animation [standard def]          
                          Boing Boing Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wkq_Y2I2-M5:28
Опубликовано: 5 апр. 2011 г.
Released April 4, 2011, courtesy of NASA/JPL: "This artist's concept animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012."

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/virginia-middle-school-student-earns-honor-of-naming-nasas-next-mars-rover
У следующего марсохода НАСА новое имя - Настойчивость.

Настойчивость в настоящее время проходит окончательную сборку и проверку в Космическом центре Кеннеди НАСА во Флориде. Он должен приземлиться на кратере Марса Джезеро чуть позже 15:40 EST (12:40 PM PST) 18 февраля 2021 года.



aaa1

Он один летит?
А то можно было бы назвать "Dementia" and "Bravery". )

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/7912581
Цитировать5 МАР, 22:56
Пятый марсоход NASA получил официальное имя
Аппарат Perseverance займется сбором образцов с Марса

ТАСС, 5 марта. Пятый марсоход NASA, который космическое агентство США отправит на Марс в этом году, получил официальное имя - Perseverance ("Настойчивость"). Об этом в четверг сообщило руководство NASA на пресс-конференции в Лаборатории реактивного движения NASA (JPL).

"Этот марсоход станет первым аппаратом, который соберет образцы с Марса, которые затем будут возвращены на Землю. Подобных успехов в науке и изучении Солнечной системы нельзя достичь без двух важных вещей - любопытства и настойчивости", - заявил заместитель руководителя научного подразделения NASA Томас Цурбухен.

В августе прошлого года специалисты агентства заявили, что имя этому аппарату выберут американские школьники, которые напишут сочинения на тему изучения Марса и отправят их в NASA. В общей сложности, в первом этапе конкурса приняли участие свыше 28 тыс. учащихся младших, средних и старших классов.

В середине января эксперты NASA подвели итоги первого этапа конкурса и опубликовали список из 155 полуфиналистов, только один из которых, Алекс Мейтер, получил возможность присвоить роверу имя и поучаствовать в церемонии его запуска с космодрома на мысе Канаверал в июле этого года.

В конце января ученые огласили список из девяти финалистов, один из которых станет победителем конкурса в первых неделях марта, когда жюри подведет его итоги. Все имена, попавшие в шорт-лист, связаны с различными положительными качествами человека: стойкостью (Endurance), храбростью (Courage), выносливостью (Fortitude), гениальностью (Ingenuity), твердостью воли (Tenacity), потенциалом (Promise), настойчивостью (Perseverance), предвидением (Vision) и ясностью ума (Clarity).

Поиски марсианской жизни
В декабре 2012 года представители NASA объявили, что инженеры агентства создадут еще один марсоход, пятый по счету. Он станет своеобразным наследником ровера Curiosity ("Любопытство"), который совершил посадку на Марс в августе 2012 года. Новый аппарат, получивший неофициальное имя "Марс-2020", будет выведен в космос в середине лета 2020 года и осуществит посадку в кратере Йезеро на экваторе Красной планеты в феврале 2021 года.

С технической точки зрения пятый марсоход NASA будет полным наследником Curiosity, что заметно удешевило и ускорило сборку ровера, чья стоимость оценивается космическим агентством в $2,46 млрд. Главной задачей "Марса-2020" будут не поиски следов пресноводных водоемов, как у его предшественника, а оценка обитаемости Марса в прошлом и поиски возможных следов жизни.

Для этого "Марс-2020" будет не только изучать свойства отложений осадочных пород, но и собирать их образцы в специальный "шкаф", установленный на его борту. Запасенные в нем минералы на Землю вернет специальная совместная миссия Европейского космического агентства (ЕКА) и NASA, которая будет отправлена к Красной планете не раньше 2026 года.
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Старый

1. Ангара - единственная в мире новая РН которая хуже старой (с) Старый Ламер
2. Назначение Роскосмоса - не летать в космос а выкачивать из бюджета деньги
3. У Маска ракета длиннее и толще чем у Роскосмоса
4. Чем мрачнее реальность тем ярче бред (с) Старый Ламер

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Перверсизм?    

 
ЦитироватьJonathan O'Callaghan ‏ @Astro_Jonny    9 ч. назад

 
Да, чтобы это выговорить, нужно этим самым и обладать.
There are four lights


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dISam4yCxmE
ЦитироватьPerseverance is NASA's next Mars rover          
                          SciNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dISam4yCxmE1:44
Опубликовано: 5 мар. 2020 г.
NASA's rover for the Mars 2020 Mission was named Perseverance, on 5 March 2020. The name was announced by Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, during a celebration at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia

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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7620
ЦитироватьMARCH 19, 2020
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Gets Its Sample Handling System


NASA's Mars 2020 rover, now called Perseverance, undergoes processing at a payload servicing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 14, 2020. Image Credit: NASA


This illustration depicts NASA's Perseverance rover operating on the surface of Mars. Perseverance will land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater a little after 3:40 p.m. EST (12:40 p.m. PST) on Feb. 18, 2021.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 
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The system will be collecting and storing Martian rock and soil. Its installation marks another milestone in the march toward the July launch period.

With the launch period for NASA's Mars Perseverance rover opening in a little less than four months, the six-wheeler is reaching significant pre-launch milestones almost daily at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rover had some components removed prior to being shipped from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to the Cape in early February. Last week, Perseverance's assembly, test and launch operations team integrated two components that will play key roles in the acquisition, containment and eventual return to Earth of humanity's first samples from another planet: the Adaptive Caching Assembly and the Bit Carousel.

The Bit Carousel contains the nine drill bits Perseverance will use to sample Martian rock and dust. Attached to the top front of the rover on March 7 and resembling a flying saucer, it also is the gateway for the samples to move into the belly of the rover for assessment and processing by the Adaptive Caching System.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/P4boyXQuUIw

Installed on March 3, the Adaptive Caching Assembly consists of seven motors and more than 3,000 parts, all working in unison to collect samples from the surface of Mars. A chief component of the assembly is the Sample Handling Arm, which will move sample tubes to the main robotic arm's coring drill and then transfer the filled sample tubes into a space to be sealed and stored.

The installation and testing of the electrical wiring for both the Adaptive Caching Assembly and Bit Carousel were completed on March 11.

"With the addition of the Adaptive Caching Assembly and Bit Carousel, the heart of our sample collection system is now on board the rover," said Matt Wallace, deputy project manager of the Mars 2020 mission at JPL. "Our final but most crucial elements to install will be the sample tubes that will contain the first samples that will be brought from another planet back to Earth for analysis. We will keep these pristine until we integrate them in a couple of months."

Currently, the coronavirus has not impacted the Mars Perseverance rover launch schedule. Launch preparations are continuing.

The Perseverance rover is a robotic scientist weighing just under 2,300 pounds (1,043 kilograms). It will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize Mars' climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth and help pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet. No matter what day Perseverance launches during the launch period, which extends from July 17 through Aug. 5, it will alight on Mars' Jezero Crater just after 3:40 p.m. EST (12:40 p.m. PST) on Feb. 18, 2021.

JPL, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, is building and will manage operations of the Mars Perseverance rover for NASA. The agency's Launch Services Program, based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for launch management. The Mars 2020 project with its Perseverance rover is part of a larger program that includes missions to the Moon as a way to prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024, NASA will establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon by 2028 through NASA's Artemis lunar exploration plans.

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-leadership-assessing-mission-impacts-of-coronavirus
ЦитироватьMarch 21, 2020
RELEASE 20-031

NASA Leadership Assessing Mission Impacts of Coronavirus

To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway across all missions, projects, and programs. The goal was to identify tasks that can be done remotely by employees at home, mission-essential work that must be performed on-site, and on-site work that will be paused.

"We are going to take care of our people. That's our first priority," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "Technology allows us to do a lot of what we need to do remotely, but, where hands-on work is required, it is difficult or impossible to comply with CDC guidelines while processing spaceflight hardware, and where we can't safely do that we're going to have to suspend work and focus on the mission critical activities."

The agency has defined mission-essential work as that which must be performed to maintain critical mission operations to ensure the schedule of time-sensitive mission-critical launches, or work to protect life and critical infrastructure. This includes work to support America's national security and mission-essential functions for the nation. NASA leadership will continually assess all activities as the situation evolves.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which includes the Perseverance Rover and Mars Helicopter, remains a high priority for the agency, and launch and other mission preparations will continue. Much of the work is being done by employees and contractors who work remotely across the agency. Assessments by agency leadership are underway for anyone required to work in areas under restriction, such as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, especially after the recent announcement by California's governor.
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ЦитироватьNASA Shows Perseverance with Helicopter, Cruise Stage Testing

Anna Heiney
Posted Mar 26, 2020 at 11:34 am


NASA's Mars Helicopter and its cruise stage undergo functional testing in the airlock inside Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on March 10, 2020. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston

The Mars 2020 mission involving NASA's newly named rover — Perseverance — received a significant boost following the completion of important testing at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Activities to measure mass properties of the Cruise Stage vehicle were performed on the spin table inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. Successful testing also was performed on NASA's Mars Helicopter, which will be attached to Perseverance. The functional test (50 RPM spin) was executed on the stand in the airlock. This marked the last time the rotor blades will be operated until the rover reaches the Martian surface.

The NASA Mars Helicopter will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet. The twin-rotor, solar-powered helicopter will remain encapsulated after landing, deploying once mission managers determine an acceptable area to conduct test flights.


The NASA Mars Helicopter will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston

On March 5, 2020, NASA announced Perseverance as the new name for the ars 2020 rover. Alexander Mather, a seventh-grader from Virginia, provided the winning name for the rover with his entry in the agency's Name the Rover essay contest.

Perseverance will land on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. Liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket is targeted for mid-July from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA's Launch Services Program based at Kennedy is managing the launch.

About the size of a car with dimensions similar to the Curiosity rover, Perseverance was developed under NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The mission aims to search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth and pave the way for human exploration of Mars.

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/mars2020/2020/03/26/millions-tag-along-for-nasas-mars-2020-mission/
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ЦитироватьMillions Tag Along for NASA's Mars 2020 Mission

James Cawley
Posted Mar 26, 2020 at 5:02 pm


The "Send Your Name to Mars" logo is installed on the Mars Perseverance rover on March 16, 2020, inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/JPL

When the Mars Perseverance rover begins its seven-month journey to the Red Planet in mid-July, it will be carrying the names of more than 10 million people throughout the world.

Those names were etched onto three microchips, which were placed aboard Perseverance. On March 16, 2020, inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the "Names to Mars" logo was installed on the rover.

Those who took advantage of the special public promotion also had the opportunity to receive a souvenir boarding pass and obtain "frequent flyer points" as part of humanity's first round trip to another planet. In total, 10,932,295 people submitted their names. Turkey (2,528,844), India (1,778,277) and the United States (1,733,559) all had more than 1 million submissions.


More than 10 million names were etched onto three microchips, which were placed aboard Perseverance. Photo credit: NASA/JPL

Perseverance will search for signs of past microbial life, characterize the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.

The rover will land on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. Liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket is targeted for mid-July from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. NASA's Launch Services Program based at Kennedy is managing the launch.

Weighing more than 2,300 pounds, Perseverance is about the size of a car, with dimensions similar to the Curiosity rover. It was developed under NASA's Mars Exploration Program.

Earlier this month at Kennedy, activities to measure mass properties of the Cruise Stage vehicle were performed on the spin table inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. Successful testing also was performed on NASA's Mars Helicopter, which will be attached to Perseverance. The helicopter will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet.