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Urgent: NASA suspends 2016 launch of Mars lander due to instrument leak

Xinhua, December 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. space agency NASA said Tuesday it has suspended the planned launch of a Mars lander called InSight in March 2016 due to unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a French-built seismological instrument. Enditem