NASA Seeks Industry Partners for a High-Bandwidth Mars Communications Network

NASA issued a Request for Proposal to partner with industry on the Mars Telecommunications Network, a high-bandwidth communications system intended to support future Mars missions (surface, orbital, and human exploration) with network operations by 2030. The program, part of NASA’s Moon-to-Mars SCaN architecture, followed an industry day where feedback shaped agency objectives, and a science payload will be selected by the Science Mission Directorate; responses are due within 30 days.