NASA aerospace engineer Tracy Drain has worked with the space agency for more than two decades, including on projects that have gone to Mars, Jupiter and Psyche (a metal asteroid). She's currently working on the Europa Clipper mission to send a probe to Jupiter's moon Europa, which has a massive ice-covered ocean.

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"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government leadership with commercial innovation to make what is impossible today rapidly implementable in the future," said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division in the statement.

NASA lost contact with the MAVEN probe in Mars orbit, and teams are working to reestablish communications after an unexpected anomaly.