After previously cancelling this month’s planned launch of NASA’s Mars probe, the space agency announced today that the InSight mission now is set to lift off in May 2018.
The InSight mission, first announced in 2012, is designed to give NASA another scientific tool to help researchers understand the makeup of Mars, how it formed and why it evolved so differently from Earth.
The probe had originally been scheduled to launch this month, but wascalled off in December when scientists were unable to fix a vacuum leak in its prime science instrument.
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Source: COMPUTER WORLD