The space agency has said they are suspending the March 2016 launch of its InSight mission to Mars because of problems with a scientific instrument. “Every opportunity isn’t equal because our orbits are slightly eccentric, and so the 2018 opportunity is actually energetically more favorable. Gaining information about the core, mantle and crust of Mars is a high priority for planetary science, and InSight was built to accomplish this”.
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InSight arrived last week at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to begin preparations ahead of a launch targeted for March 18.
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“We got very, very close”, John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told reporters in a conference call Tuesday.
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The arrangement includes a progressively expanding set of difficulties, from building out exploration on the International Space Station, to conceivably landing space explorers on one of Mars’ moons. “When you challenge scientists and engineers to do something that’s never been done before, sometimes things don’t work out the way you want”.
Within the next month or two, it may evaluate choices for fixing a seismometer which was supplied by the German area organization, the defective device, CNES.
NASA says the launch was abandoned due to a continuing fault with the lander’s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS).
A leak earlier this year that previously had prevented the seismometer from retaining vacuum conditions was repaired, and the mission team was hopeful the most recent fix also would be successful. The officials determined that the time is limited to fix such a leak. However, during testing on Monday in extreme cold temperature (-49 degrees Fahrenheit/-45 degrees Celsius) the instrument again failed to hold a vacuum.
NASA has suspended its next mission to Mars, initially scheduled for March 2016, because of a fault detected in a key research instrument.
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NASA is now working on three Mars missions with the European Space Agency and plans to send another rover to Mars in 2020. Bruce Banerdt, InSight’s principal investigator, said that during tests of the instrument, still in France, air was pumped out to a pressure of about 1 ten-millionth of a millibar, or less than 1 billionth of the Earth’s atmospheric pressure of about 1,000 millibars. “It is just a hiccup on our path to getting this kind of science and this kind of understanding of our solar system”.
