December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... that will directly enable future missions to Mars is through the proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM).1 This will include the first-ever robotic and crewed mission to identify, capture and redirect a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) in the area around...
27 June 2017
New Roll-Out Solar Array tested at the ISS
... that make use of solar arrays, NASA has also been eyeing up the technology for use in missions such as the agency’s Asteroid Redirect Mission. Although the Trump administration has called for the cancellation of the project, if it were to get...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
...-focused initiatives.” While some speculate that projects geared towards aiding a mission to Mars, such as the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a program to send astronauts to visit an asteroid by the 2020s and the Space Launch System (SLS), the...
17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
... final anchoring of the boulder to the capture mechanism. Credit: NASA artist’s concept The Asteroid Redirect Mission is expected to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid in near-earth space. The spacecraft will retrieve a boulder of a few meters...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... in 2016. The proposed budget includes $217 million for the Asteroid Redirect Mission, the agency’s three-year-old proposal to send a robotic spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid and bring back a boulder from it to cislunar space to be visited...
10 October 2015
NASA releases plan for Mars exploration
...Ground” will provide training in deep space exploration for astronauts on an asteroid boulder, redirected into a stable orbit around the moon by means of the Asteroid Redirect Mission. The ultimate phase, “Earth Independent,” will rely on the lessons...
