NASA just put a 30-day clock on a $700 million Mars contract, and the deadline tells you everything about how scared the agency is of losing its relay orbiters before astronauts arrive

NASA’s Mars relay infrastructure is dying, and the agency just put a 30-day clock on finding a replacement. The Request for Proposal for the Mars Telecommunications Network, posted this week to the federal contracting portal, gives prospective contractors barely a month to respond on a program estimated to be worth roughly $700 million. As reported […]