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Feb
Los Angeles: As the US space agency NASA prepares to send its next Mars 2020 mission in search of signs of life on the Red Planet, a Pasadena-based company is busy developing the rover's robotic arm which, it says, will be more efficient than the one currently deployed on the Curiosity rover. Motiv Space Systems has received an $11 million-plus contract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to build the robotic arm for Mars 2020 which is slated for launch in July 2020 aboard an Atlas V 541 rocket from the Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force…