Blue Origin Gets $700 Million From NASA to Build a Comms Network in Orbit Around Mars

Blue Origin Gets $700 Million from NASA to Build a Comms Network in Orbit Around Mars

With the plan for colonizing the Moon pretty much laid out, American space agency NASA is slowly turning its attention to Mars. And an announcement made earlier this month marks the first step in establishing the logistics required to launch crewed missions to the Red Planet. There are many things standing in the way of such a mission happening soon, and one of them is the lack of a proper network meant to handle Earth-Mars communication... (co…

Blue Origin selected by NASA to help build America's Mars telecommunications network

Blue Origin has been selected by NASA to develop and deliver a Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) as part of NASA's Mars Telecommunications Network (MTN), the first dedicated, high-speed communications relay network at the Red Planet. Funded by Congress through the Working Families Tax Cut Act and part of NASA's Moon to Mars strategy, this award reflects America's sustained leadership at Mars and Blue Origin's readiness to support.

NASA selects Blue Origin to build next-gen Mars Communications Network - SatellitePro ME

Under the Artemis program, NASA is sending astronauts to explore the Moon and prepare for missions to Mars.