Hola amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., hemos recibido información de la Agencia Espacial NASA, sobre la firma de acuerdos con Agencias de otros países; como un avance al próximo viaje hacia Marte, previsto en el 2020.
NASA, así nos informa: "Para avanzar en nuestro viaje a Marte a través de la continua cooperación internacional, administrador de la NASA Charles Bolden firmó acuerdos Martes, 16 de junio 2015 con Jean-Yves Le Gall, presidente de la agencia espacial francesa Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales, Francisco Marín Pérez, director general de el Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial de España, e Ignacio Azqueta Ortiz, director general del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial....."
More information..............
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-signs-agreements-to-advance-agencys-journey-to-mars
NASA Administrator Signs Agreements to Advance Agency's Journey to Mars
Credits: NASA
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden signed agreements with two European
partners to advance Mars exploration and our journey to the Red Planet
during meetings Tuesday at the Paris Air Show.
Bolden and Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency,
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), signed an agreement for
France to provide the mast for the SuperCam component of NASA’s Mars
2020 rover.
In terms of design, SuperCam is similar to the ChemCam on the
Curiosity rover, which is currently traversing the surface of Mars.
ChemCam analyzes rocks and soil to determine their compositions and
identify samples for analysis by other instruments onboard Curiosity.
SuperCam, however, will have significantly enhanced capabilities,
equipped with four scientific instruments that will allow it to look for
biosignatures – indicators of the past presence of life -- and identify
samples for collection and possible return to Earth.
“I’m delighted that our long time partners CNES will join us on the
next step in our journey to Mars,” Bolden said, “We’re paving the way
for humans to visit the Red Planet and working to answer one of the key
questions for all humanity: has there ever been life elsewhere?”
Bolden also signed an agreement that extends cooperation with Spain
on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, the NASA InSight mission
that will launch next year to study the core of Mars, and the Mars 2020
rover. Bolden and Francisco Marín Pérez, director general of the Center
for the Development of Industrial Technology of Spain (CDTI), and
Ignacio Azqueta Ortiz, director general of the National Institute for
Aerospace Technology of Spain (INTA) finalized the agreement.
The NASA-CDTI-INTA agreement continues operation and coordination of
the Remote Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) instrument suite and
the High Gain Antenna (HGA) subsystem currently on the Curiosity rover.
REMS provides important data on Mars’ weather, while the HGA provides an
important communications link for transmitting data from the mission.
Spain will provide the HGA subsytem for the Mars 2020 rover, as well.
For the InSight lander, Spain will provide a suite of sensors called
Temperature and Wind on InSight (TWINS).
Through other agreements in development, Spain also will equip the
Mars 2020 rover with a Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA)
instrument suite and calibration targets for the SuperCam.
“NASA is proud to continue our strong collaboration with Spain that
is already producing amazing results on Mars,” Bolden said. “We look
forward to this next phase of our partnership and a wealth of data about
Mars, the next destination for human exploration.”
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Last Updated: June 23, 2015
Editor: Karen Northon
Tags: InSight Mars Lander, Journey to Mars, Mars 2020 Rover, Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity)
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