InSight was a NASA lander mission designed to study the deep interior of Mars. Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with contributions from European agencies, its primary goal was to understand the formation and evolution of rocky planets. The lander carried instruments like the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) to measure marsquakes and a heat probe (HP3) to study the planet's internal heat flow. InSight's mission provided data about the planet's core, mantle, and crust, contributing to our understanding of the early formation of terrestrial planets.
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The InSight mission has a total cost, including international contributions, of nearly $1,000,000,000.
The Lockheed Martin–built InSight spacecraft will slow from 5.5 km per second at the beginning of the entry, descent, and landing phase about 125 km high to zero in 6.5 minutes using a heat shield, parachute, and thrusters.
InSight will begin deploying its solar arrays 16 minutes after landing to allow dust kicked up by the landing to settle, with the deployment itself taking an additional 16 minutes.
The seismometer built by CNES experienced development problems that required a redesign and delayed InSight’s launch from March 2016 to this May.
InSight will deploy two major instruments on the Martian surface: a French-built seismometer and a German-built heat probe that will burrow several meters into the ground.
After a trajectory correction maneuver on 2018-11-18, InSight appeared to be within about seven kilometers of the planned landing site.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will provide data with a brief delay after landing, including a first image from the surface taken by the InSight lander.
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NASA planned to wind down the active listening campaign before the InSight spacecraft's landing on Mars on 2018-11-26 so orbital assets could be focused on a successful InSight landing.
InSight was launched on 2018-05-05 and is scheduled to land on 2018-11-26.
InSight launched on 2018-05-05 to study Mars's interior.
An Atlas 5 rocket launched the InSight mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 2018-05-05.
NASA spent $650,400,000 on the InSight mission as part of its Discovery program.
CNES and DLR together spent about $180,000,000 on their instrument contributions to the InSight mission.
InSight carries the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe provided by the German space agency DLR, which features a mole designed to drill about five meters into the surface to measure heat flow.
NASA spent $163,400,000 for the Atlas 5 launch of InSight.
NASA spent an additional $18,500,000 on two cubesats called Mars Cube One (MarCO) that flew as secondary payloads on the InSight launch.
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