... running low on fuel. The MEV is on a mission to intercept the fuel-hungry satellite and attempt the first-..., and it will serve multiple clients during its lifetime.” A second Mission Extension Vehicle, set for launch in 2020, is also planned. This...
... could aid in helping humanity become a multi-planet species by exploring “the possibility of human habitation.” This ambitious mission is China’s second attempt to reach the Red Planet with a robotic probe, following the unsuccessful Yinghuo 1 Mars...
.... However the outlook doesn’t look particularly good. “High-resolution gravity data obtained during Dawn’s extended mission revealed an abundance of dense material — that is, salts and rock particles — in the lower crust of Ceres, suggesting that...
...characterise soil composition and water ice distribution, during a mission expected to last about three months. Meanwhile, high ... been busy testing equipment ready to start on its mission objectives. In September 2020 Tianwen-1 deployed the TW-1 ...
...solar sail system. The aim of the ACS3 mission is to replace conventional rocket propellants by developing ...powered propulsion system, eventually leading to more marvelous deep-space missions following the first inter-planetary CubeSats MarCO-A and B ...
... in order to recover the expected sensitivity of the original proposed mission. We were funded for three and a half years, and ...the time. We submitted a proposal to request an extended mission, based on the progress we had made improving our pipeline...