According to ABC News, the cause of the delay is a leak in a science instrument on the InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander.
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Artist’s concept of the InSight lander deployed on Mars.
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 delay may change scheduling of other NASA missions, says Elkins-Tanton, who leads one mission proposal, to the metallic asteroid Psyche, which is competing to be the Discovery mission to launch in the series after InSight.
Scientists have high hopes for the probe, expecting it to tell them how Mars is cooling, whether the core of Mars is solid or liquid like Earth’s, and why Mars’ crust is not divided into tectonic plates that drift like they do on Earth.
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A United States technology satellite planned to start in March to Mars continues to be seated as a result of trickle in a vital study device, NASA stated on Thursday, making doubt concerning the widely-anticipated work review the inside of the planet’s potential.
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.
“The decision was made by the leak”, Grunsfeld said. The mission will launch during the period March 4 to March 30, 2016, and land on Mars Sept. 28, 2016.
“It’s the first time ever that such a sensitive instrument has been built”.
That level of sensitivity requires that the instruments exist in a vacuum, and when the sphere was sealed, leaks were discovered. So far, $525 million has spent on the $675 million mission. Missions to Mars typically have fit into a small window where the orbits of both planets are close enough to make the trip economically feasible.
If InSight survives its pending review, it will be the agency’s first interplanetary mission to lift off from Vandenberg; such missions normally launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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The next possible launch window for the InSight lander is in mid-2018.
