Blue Origin will develop a Mars orbiter that will be critical to NASA as the agency prepares to send humans to Earth's planetary neighbor.

Blue Origin has secured a $700 million contract to design and build NASA’s next Mars orbiter, a dedicated telecommunications spacecraft meant to keep the agency’s Red Planet missions talking to Earth.

The agency finally reached a decision earlier this month, selecting Blue Origin to develop, launch, and operate a $700 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High-resolution satellite images have revealed dripping paint-like patterns on Mars that match those found on Earth, according to ...

Rocket Lab filed a GAO protest challenging NASA's $700 million Blue Origin contract for a Mars communications spacecraft, ...

New Glenn rocket launch was postponed due to solar activity Geomagnetic storms can disrupt radio, satellite communications Twin NASA satellites to measure space weather on Mars Heightened aurora ...

New Glenn lifts off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral, carrying twin Mars probes for NASA. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket ...

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than ...

NASA has announced plans to procure a new communications satellite that would orbit Mars and transmit data to and from the Red Planet. The proposed price tag is $700 million, representing close to 4% ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been studying the red planet since late 2005. And now, it is trying something new. Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the years ahead, the space agency will need a reliable way for those astronauts to ...