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NASA test-fires rocket motors that will help launch samples off Mars (video)

Space.com

By Andrew Jones

August 11, 2023

NASA has test-fired rocket motors as part of the development of an ascent vehicle designed to launch samples off the Red Planet.

NASA and its contractors are developing the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) for the NASA-European Space Agency Mars Sample Return mission campaign. The MAV is designed to get samples collected on Mars into orbit above the Red Planet, where they’ll be grabbed by a spacecraft that will haul them to Earth.

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