Perseverance Mars Rover

With the addition of a powerful piece of hardware, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover continues to progress toward its much-anticipated launch in less than two months. The spacecraft's booster arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Skid Strip on Monday, May 18. It was then offloaded and taken to United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas Spaceflight Operations …

Testing on NASA's Mars Perseverance rover at Kennedy Space Center closed out April on an extremely high note. The latest activities at the Florida spaceport included attaching the aeroshell backshell on April 29 and attaching the rover to its rocket-powered descent stage on April 23 inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The rover and descent …