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Aced: TGO data relay capability

In the first surface-to-space test of the TGO relay capability, the ESA spacecraft successfully picked up data from NASA’s Curiosity and Opportunity rovers. We call it interplanetary networking!

Aced: TGO data relay capability

On 22 November 2016, the NASA radio system on ESA’s Trace gas Orbiter, which arrived at Mars in October, succeeded in its first test of receiving data transmitted from NASA Mars rovers, both Opportunity and Curiosity.