April 2025
Racing to the Moon
...on the lunar surface, while Canada is building a robot arm. In return, European, Japanese and Canadian astronauts will be ... landing in rugged and largely unknown terrain A robotic arm and drill for retrieving approximately two-kilogram samples and ...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
...John McCain who serves as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. “For decades, the U.S. military has assumed that ...a mission to Mars, such as the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a program to send astronauts to visit an asteroid by the...
12 December 2017
Trump signs Space Policy Directive 1
... Planet with an interim project that included the controversial Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). Like the ill-fated programmes commissioned before it, ARM too was disbanded when Trump became President. Perhaps poignantly, the signing of the...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
... asteroid itself, and exactly whereabouts OSIRIS-REx’s extendable sampling arm will pluck this material from will be decided by the survey. ...During the sampling procedure, the arm will release a burst of nitrogen gas as it ...
12 May 2021
ESA signs contract with Swiss agency to clean space debris
...grappling the washing machine-sized payload adapter (with a four-armed claw), decelerating it down to the low Earth orbit and allowing ...the debris and the arm to burn during re-entry. "Our 'tow truck' design will ...
12 November 2021
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts arrive at ISS
... spacesuit. It is expected he will perform a Russian spacewalk to support the installation and first operations of the European Robotic Arm (ERA) that travelled to the Station with the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) on 29 July this year...
