NASA : NASA Administrator Signs Agreements to Advance Agency's Journey to Mars .- Administrador de la NASA firma acuerdos con agencias como un avance de viaje a Marte

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

To advance our journey to Mars through continued international cooperation, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden signed agreements Tuesday, June 16, 2015 with Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, Francisco Marín Pérez, director general of the Center for the Development of Industrial Technology of Spain, and Ignacio Azqueta Ortiz, director general of the National Institute for Aerospace Technology.

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NASA agreements with Spain's Center for the Development of Industrial Technology and National Institute for Aerospace Technology continue operation of and coordination on the Remote Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) instrument suite and High Gain Antenna (HGA) subsystem currently on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.

Credits: NASA

 

Spain will provide a suite of sensors for NASA's Mars InSight lander called Temperature and Wind on InSight (TWINS).

Credits: NASA

 

France's space agency, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, will provide the mast for the SuperCam component of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. Spain will equip the rover with a High Gain Antenna subsytem, Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) instrument suite and calibration targets for the SuperCam.

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.”

For more information about NASA’s Journey to Mars, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mars

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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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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