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Two Photon Spacecraft to be Built for Mars ESCAPADE Mission

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Tom Patton
Jun 16, 2021
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Rocket Lab has been awarded a subcontract by the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (UCBSSL) to design two Photon spacecraft for a scientific mission to Mars.

"Planetary science missions have traditionally cost hundreds of millions of dollars and taken up to a decade to come to fruition. Our Photon spacecraft for ESCAPADE will de…

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