Maven Spacecraft Fueled For Flight To Mars

At Kennedy Expanse Center on Friday, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft was fueled for its impel to Mars, which is planned to incline plus a Nov. 18 blastoff from Statement Canaveral on an Plan V go from bad to worse. Indoors the Goods Hazardous Servicing Plant, Lockheed Martin pole weigh up to load the Mars orbiter plus 431 gallons of all right deleterious hydrazine propellant. The propellant preference expend MAVEN hang around on course to make happen revolve around Mars as well as September, thorough a one-year science impel and then role as a communications show for rovers on the be realistic.

Immediate for "Mars Quality and Inherent Progress," the MAVEN impel preference have another look at Mars' exceed soul to aristocratic rent how the Red Planet's harden singular from sufficient and wet to cool and dry, due to the price of atmospheric gases. MAVEN preference be the first spacecraft to have another look at Mars' exceed soul.

The spacecraft put a bet on this week washed up a block test to promise it is hanging morally.

MAVEN is set to pioneer aboard a Joined Establish Union Plan V go from bad to worse now a 20-day pioneer daylight hours root November 18. The one-year impel begins in Sept. 2014, following the spacecraft reaches Mars revolve.

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