23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
....” “By the middle of the next decade, ESA’s deep-space communication needs for supporting today’s missions, like ExoMars, and upcoming spacecraft, like Juice, is expected to exceed our present capacity by around half,” says ESA’s Pier...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
... launch in July/August 2020. Airbus is already in the process of building another rover bound for Mars (ESA’a ExoMars rover) at its Stevenage base and after securing a contract worth £3.9 million from ESA, the knowledge and...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
... origin of the detected Martian methane, so the PFS instrument is set to continue monitoring Mars' atmosphere. Meanwhile, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will also continue its search for the molecule from high above in Mars...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... Arab Emirates is preparing to launch its Hope probe from Japan. The European Space Agency delayed its ExoMars mission until 2022. NASA chose the name Perseverance after receiving 28,000 entries from children, while...
