30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
...: "Sleep well, Rosetta." ROOM spoke to Dr. Paolo Ferri, Spacecraft Operations Manager for the Rosetta Mission, head of Solar and Planetary Missions Operations division on this historic occasion. "It was a sad moment today when we saw the signal...
March 2017
ROSETTA AND PHILAE: Outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... of the fuel reserve, and the risks involved in another hibernation were strong reasons to decide to stop the mission on 30 September 2016. However, we decided to finish it in a glorious way, with an attempted soft ‘touch down’ of Rosetta onto the...
11 April 2017
ESA to supply cameras for Russian lunar mission
... for the landing of the spacecraft as Russia prepares to initiate its new lunar exploration program. The first mission of Russia's lunar program, Luna-Glob, will be one of five spacecraft that is intended to fly to the Moon to study...
04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
...Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will be NASA’s first mission to peer deep within the interior of Mars with a... check-up from the inside out. Up until now, previous missions to the Red Planet have concentrated on its exterior by studying...
30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... by Boeing Phantom Works, the reusable X-37B spaceplane is designed to launch on top of a conventional rocket; for this particular mission, the unpiloted OTV was lofted into space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 7 September, 2017. The spaceplane...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... is, it provides us a full understanding of the Martian atmosphere throughout the day," Sarah Al Amiri, science lead for the mission and the UAE's minister of state for advanced sciences, said during a news conference held on 9 July. "So it covers...
