Friday, May 03, 2019

Mars 2020 Update: America's Next Red Planet Rover Gets Its Antenna...

Inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California, engineers install the Mars 2020 rover's high-gain antenna...on April 19, 2019.
NASA / JPL - Caltech

Now Mars 2020 Can Phone Home (News Release)

Mars 2020 engineers and technicians prepare the high-gain antenna for installation on the rover's equipment deck. The antenna is articulated so it can point itself directly at Earth to uplink or downlink data.

The image was taken on April 19, 2019, in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, near Pasadena, California.

JPL is building and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 rover for the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.

Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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