News on Mars-missions
- 3D model of the Mars rovers completed
- Mars orbiter 10 years anniversary
- Mission to search for life on Saturn-moon proposed
- Planned NASA/European Mars-mission InSigth
- New images of old Mars-lander
- Food and diet for a Mars-mission
- Mars rover begins 9th year of Mars work
- Russian Mars probe crashes
- Mars rover to spend winter at 'Greeley Haven'
- Mars-bound rover begins research in space
- Euopean autonomous Mars-rover being developed
- European scientist play key-role
- No new contact with Russaian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft
- Curiousity heading for Mars
- The Curiosity rover's journey to Mars
- Launch for Mars Science Lab saturday
- Car-sized Mars rover ready for launch nov 25
- Curiosity rover could conclude the water question
- Microbe risk when rover wheels hit Martian dirt
- Epic search for life heats up with focus on new high-tech
- Mars-rover approaches large crater
- NASA announces news briefing on Mars science findings
- Landing site selected for next Mars-rover
- NASA will soon decide on where to land
- The long jorney of the curiosity rover to Mars
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Next generation Mars-rover budget-blast
Wednesday, 02 February 2011 12:20
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It was originallly going to cost 1,5 bill USD and should have been launched in 2009 but has posed some problems, forcing NASA to ask for an extra 85mill. USD With this latest cost overrun on the development of the Mars Science Laboratory, which is a nuclear-powered rover the size of a small car, the final price-tag will be 2,58bill USD Curiosity as it is named will study whether Mars was or is habitable. Source: NASA TV |
The next Mars rover, which is going to be launched this autumn, has blown its budgets again.