France Repairs Instrument For InSight Mars Lander

Credit: NASA
France has repaired a vacuum-chamber leak in a key science instrument that will fly aboard the NASA-led InSight lander mission slated for launch to Mars early in the new year. Engineers at French space agency CNES are now testing the repair to the InSight lander’s SEIS (Seismic Experiment for...

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