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  • Developing a flight strategy to land heavier vehicles on Mars

    Feb 12, 2019 4:30 am by Debra Levey LarsonResearch
    Artist’s illustration of a spacecraft using retropropulsion to steer. Courtesy of NASA.

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    • Artist’s illustration of a spacecraft using retropropulsion to steer. Courtesy of NASA.

    To send more ambitious robotic missions to the surface of Mars, and eventually humans, we need to figure out how to land more mass than current systems allow