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Lockheed Martin completes assembly, starts environmental testing of MAVEN

Submit on Friday, February 8th, 2013 22:56

Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The orbiter is now undergoing environmental testing at the company’s Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colorado. MAVEN is the next mission to Mars and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.

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