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| | Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Ball wins NASA contract to build Mars spacecraft |
 | | "This is an important strategic win for Ball Aerospace," said Harold Reitsema, director of space science missions at Ball Aerospace. |
 | | These are the Deep Impact mission, which will fly to comet Tempel 1 and observe the formation of an impact crater, and Space Technology-3, which is NASA¹s first attempt to fly two spacecraft in formation to obtain high-resolution images through interferometry. |
 | | NASA's Mars Micromissions program, run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, intends to send small general purpose spacecraft buses, one or two every two years starting late 2002, to support low-cost science missions to study our neighboring planet, Mars. |
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