20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
... public. Work to modify the offshore platforms is now underway, which have now been renamed Phobos and Deimos after the two moons of Mars. The purchase of the oil rigs was first identified by reporters for...
21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
... this reasoning to Mars, if it turns out Phobos and Deimos are actual chunks of Mars, ripped off during a giant ...different compositions, that so far have been difficult to explain, while Deimos has only one. Armed with a corer to extract material from...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... to form a unique expedition-class planetary science vehicle capable of supporting human exploration sorties to both Phobos and Deimos as well as robotic telepresence exploration and sample return from the surface of Mars. Table 2. Mars Base Camp...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... exploration for the resources they can offer for refuelling and potentially for consumption. Phobos and Deimos have been suggested to be volatile-rich asteroids captured by Mars during an episode of migration of asteroids and outer Solar...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... substantially, but cargo transport efficiency could be improved with facilities surrounding the martian moon Deimos. Deimos’ very low density (1.47 g/cm3) is inconsistent with dry porosity, [23] suggesting appreciable frozen volatile resources...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
..., even though it is not as easy as it sounds. Satellite image of refugee camp at the Syrian-Jordanian border taken by UrtheCast’s Deimos-2. Protected data The real question becomes how can space technology be used in a meaningful way? Another concern...
