News Archive / Tagged: Perseverance
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NASA town hall shares updates on science missions
Laurel KornfeldOctober 2nd, 2020At a community town hall which was broadcast live on September 10, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate provided updates on the agency’s many ongoing and upcoming science missions.
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Perseverance rover launches on its journey to explore Mars
Matt HaskellJuly 30th, 2020CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – At 7:50 a.m. EDT, the ULA Atlas V rocket lifted off on its journey to Mars with NASA’s Perseverance rover, and Ingenuity helicopter.
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NASA, ULA on the eve of launch of Perseverance Mars rover
Matt HaskellJuly 29th, 2020Years of hard work and preparation have culminated in NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, sitting atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral, set to leave Earth as early as 7:50 a.m. EDT (11:50 UTC) Thursday morning.
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Mars 2020 Flight Readiness Review complete, Launch Readiness Review tomorrow
Theresa CrossJuly 26th, 2020Preparations continue at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the upcoming Mars 2020 launch, currently scheduled to liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, July 30, 2020. Most recently completed was the Flight Readiness Review, the critical review step which confirmed the readiness of the equipment, teams and resources required […]
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Perseverance mission scientist outlines rover’s instruments, mission
Laurel KornfeldJune 23rd, 2020One month before the scheduled launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, Roger Wiens, who serves as both principal investigator of its SuperCam laser instrument and as co-investigator of its SHERLOC team, discussed the mission’s science instruments and its purpose in a virtual webinar presented by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI).
