Spacewatch: Martian rocks on Earth a step nearer as UK builds red planet rover
by Stuart Clark from on (#3TSW6)
Airbus lands 3.9m contract from space agency to design spacecraft to bring back samples from Mars in the 2020s
The European Space Agency has awarded a 3.9m contract to Airbus, in Britain, to design a new rover, in a project with Nasa, that will visit Mars to retrieve samples for bringing back to Earth for the first time.
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