Nasa has selected United Launch Services (ULS) to launch the Mars atmosphere and volatile evolution spacecraft (MAVEN) for $187m.
MAVEN will launch in November 2013 aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, US.
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The contract value includes additional services under other contracts for payload processing, launch vehicle integration, mission unique launch site ground support, and tracking, data and telemetry services.
MAVEN, a Mars orbiter, hopes to enhance the understanding of Mars’s climate history through a comprehensive picture of its upper atmosphere, ionosphere, solar energy drivers and atmospheric losses.
Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center manages the MAVEN project.
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