March 2017
Rosetta – 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...
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...
17 May 2021
European startup to produce oxygen from lunar soil for ESA 2025 mission
... and coming in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) demonstration mission in 2025. ISRU involves the extraction and processing ...the sustainability of these exploration efforts. The ISRU Demonstration Mission will show for the first time an end-to-end ...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
... approximately 6.6 kilometres per second – and knock it off course. Or at least that is what the team behind the mission are hoping. “DART will be the first demonstration of the ‘kinetic impactor’ technique in which a spacecraft deliberately collides...
