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Mars round-trip mission 2026
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FIRST ENTRY OCT 22
OCT 22 · Day 1
World's first round-trip mission to Mars launches
The Pneumatic Sampler on MMX was built by Honeybee Robotics on behalf of NASA.
The MMX probe will deploy a mini rover called Idefix, built by the French and German space agencies, onto the surface of Phobos.
JAXA launched the MMX probe to Mars on October 19, 2020.