25 August 2015
Rosetta Experts to Present the Mission at International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem
The International Rosetta mission is a cornerstone of the ESA scientific programme. For the first time in the history of spaceflight, Rosetta achieved a rendezvous with a comet nucleus and delivered a lander module, Philae, onto its surface. The ...
11 October 2015
2,000 Delegates Arrive in Jerusalem for Space Industry's Premier Annual Event
... discovery, and if you show a child a positive vision, then they can achieve anything that is possible.” The congress will discuss many of the key developments reached in the space industry in recent months, including the discovery...
28 September 2016
Musk unveils ambitious plans for Mars
SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk brought high drama and a remarkable vision of the future to the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) being held in the Mexican ‘Silicon Valley’ city of Guadalaraja this week. Musk took centre stage on ...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
The prospect of heading to Mars by 2033 has suffered a setback, as an independent report which US Congress directed NASA to conduct in the 2017 NASA authorisation act, suggests that a Mars orbital mission could be carried ...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
..., 18 months after Bridenstine’s notification. In the agency’s response, among other recommendations, NASA concurs that it should: Notify Congress that the agency has exceeded its cost commitment by at least 30 percent. The OIG calculates the overrun...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... for the Asteroid Redirect Mission. All of these are policies promoted by the American Space Renaissance Act. As Congress continues to work through the appropriations process, and potentially consider legislation to reauthorise NASA and the FAA...
