20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... “Fortunately, we’ve learned a lot that will benefit future missions that attempt to dig into the subsurface.” While NASA’s ... lander scraped the top layer of the Martian surface, no mission before InSight has tried to burrow into the soil. Doing ...
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...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... outer layers leaving the iron-nickel core. Artist’s concept depicting the spacecraft of NASA’s Psyche mission near the mission’s target, the metal asteroid Psyche, showing the five-panel solar arrays planned for the...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... known in military ethics Currently the main, most realistic and upcoming type of space missions are science missions. In a sense, scientific missions can be seen as a type of space activity to which we are inclined to assign a higher moral value...
27 January 2021
Axiom Space unveils crew for first private ISS mission
... cradle,” say Axiom in a statement Tuesday. “And it all begins with this multinational crew. This groundbreaking mission.” As groundbreaking the mission might be, many have pointed out the apparent lack of diversity amongst the four selected crew...
16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
...and France’s space agency CNES under a mission known as Proxima. The mission name was chosen from over 1300 entries...how human spaceflight is close to people on Earth.” As with all missions, as much time as possible will be spent on science, however ...
