The issue is with the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), which a among the 2 primary science instruments of InSight. During extreme cold temperatures tests on Monday, 21 December 2015, one of main instruments – SEIS seismometer – failed to keep vacuum which is necessary for seismometer to operate.
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“Our teams will find a solution to fix it, but it won’t be solved in time for a launch in 2016”, Pircher added. The orbits of Earth and Mars only align for an optimal launch every 26 months, and the window only lasts a few weeks.
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“Learning about the interior structure of Mars has been a high priority objective for planetary scientists since the Viking era”, John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, said in a press release.
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CNES repaired a faulty weld on the vacuum tank, but apparently the problem remained, according to NASA.
InSight was originally scheduled for a March 2016 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket.
NASA suspended the planned launch of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission for March 2016.
After captivating the world early this year with the discovery of traces of liquid water on Mars, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that it has suffered a setback in its efforts to further explore Earth’s neighbouring planet.
The NASA official said this matter can easily be fixed in just a couple of months.
As the mission proceeded, the vacuum would slowly rise to a factor of 10,000 – equal to about a thousandth of a millibar. The problem is with a protective pouch around the lander’s seismometer, which was created to measure ground movement on the red planet.
InSight’s science payload includes the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP), provided by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), and SEIS, provided by CNES.
“NASA and CNES also are participating in the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Mars Express mission now operating at Mars and plans to participate on ESA’s 2016 and 2018 ExoMars missions, including providing telecommunication radios for ESA’s 2016 orbiter and a critical element of a key astrobiology instrument on the 2018 ExoMars rover”.
The space agency explained in a statement that Mars is a great destination for scientific discoverie because its formation and evolution are compatible to Earth so we could learn more about us if we understand how the red planet works. The spacecraft will now probably be sent back to Lockheed Martin in Denver and put into storage.
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“The whole project team has been giving it everything they’ve got for many months to try to make this launch opportunity, so we are understandably disappointed”, he told CNN.
