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InSight grounded
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 17:35
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collectSPACE.com
NASA on Tuesday (Dec. 22) suspended the March 2016 launch of the InSight (or Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport) spacecraft to study the deep interior of Mars. The decision follows unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in the mission’s French-built vacuum-sealed seismometers. Due to how the planets align, the next opportunity to launch the InSight mission is not until the May 2018 timeframe.
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