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Rocket Lab is protesting NASA's decision to award a $700 million Mars telecommunications spacecraft contract to Blue Origin, citing issues with eligibility criteria and the review process.

Blue Origin has secured a contract worth up to $700M to build a telecommunications network around Mars to support future missions and establish a communications backbone.

NASA's Perseverance rover, the first self-driving vehicle on Mars, has proven highly successful, showing minimal wheel wear and potentially lasting many more years as it studies ancient Martian rocks in Jezero Crater.

NASA JPL demonstrates a new flexible ground-penetrating radar antenna called SkyFall, designed to hunt for frozen water beneath the Martian surface for future astronauts.

NASA's Curiosity Rover captures a high-resolution panoramic photo of a sand-capped butte nicknamed 'Miraflores' rising from a Martian plain covered in ancient polygonal seabed formations, offering new clues about the Red Planet's history.

NASA invites the public to a Reddit AMA on Wednesday, Aug. 5, to discuss 50 years of Mars exploration with its scientists.

NASA's Curiosity rover discovered a vast field of honeycomb-shaped polygonal fractures on Mars, suggesting past water activity in the Valle Grande region.

Elon Musk reaffirms that human settlement of the Moon and Mars will happen, with support from NASA and Peter Diamandis.

An in-depth look at the history and lessons of Biosphere 2, a large-scale closed ecological system experiment, and its relevance to future Martian agriculture.

NASA's Perseverance rover detected complex macromolecular carbon on the surface of a Martian rock at Bright Angel, the shallowest such detection of organic matter on Mars. The carbon's origin remains unclear, but on Earth it would suggest biological activity.

NASA's Perseverance rover has found the clearest geological evidence yet for potential ancient life on Mars, including minerals like vivianite and greigite often formed by microbial activity, but conclusive proof remains elusive.

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which studied the Martian atmosphere for 11 years, has been officially declared lost after losing contact in December 2025 when it disappeared behind Mars during a routine occultation. Telemetry fragments recovered later showed the spacecraft was spinning at 2.7 RPM, suggesting an unrecoverable power failure.

NASA's weekly update highlights the swearing-in of a deputy administrator, new Mars images from Psyche, a successful ISS delivery, and an upcoming Moon base update.

SpaceX has filed for its IPO, revealing ambitious plans including a $28 trillion total addressable market and a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, as discussed on the Equity podcast.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft captured unfamiliar crescent views of Mars during a flyby, offering rare perspectives and calibration data for its instruments before its primary mission to asteroid Psyche.

NASA has released a solicitation for a $700 million Mars telecommunications orbiter, sparking controversy over eligibility requirements that appear to favor Rocket Lab, and raising questions about the future of the Mars Sample Return mission.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is performing a gravity assist flyby of Mars on May 15 to gain speed and adjust its trajectory toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The mission will begin studying the asteroid in 2029.

First SAM TMAH experiment on Mars reveals diverse organic molecules, advancing the search for past life.