NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that will enable reliable, high-bandwidth communications and navigation services for current and future Mars missions. The firm-fixed-price contract has a maximum potential value of approximately $700 million to deliver a high-performance Mars telecommunications orbiter to NASA no […]
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Space Communications & Navigation Program, Communicating and Navigating with Missions, Goddard Space Flight Center, Mars, Technology
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September 2, 2026
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