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...
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...
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...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...Assessment Phase study for an ESA medium class mission, the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO). By ...?’ Observations with Twinkle, alongside those from traditional space missions and ground-based campaigns, will take our current wondering...
17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
... provide 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...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
... these three programs since 2012 in order to get its Exploration Mission - 1 (EM-1) off the ground, but despite mounting costs –... sufficiently. NASA did intend to follow-up the EM-1 mission with its EM-2 mission, however this is also likely to be put ...
