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Two landers are scheduled to arrive at Mars in the fall of 2016. Telecommunication relay support from the network of Mars relay orbtiers will be crucial in supporting these landers' mission objectives. Arriving first, NASA's InSight Lander mission is scheduled to arrive at Mars in September 2016. Coverage of InSight's Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) requires re-positioning of the Mars Reconnaissance...
Over the past decade, several NASA Mars orbiters - Mars Global Surveyor, 2001 Mars Odyssey, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - along with ESA's Mars Express orbiter, have provided telecommunications relay services to a series of Mars landers, including the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity), the Phoenix Lander, and the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity Rover. For each of these missions,...
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