21 November 2015
ESA to monitor plant health from space
... satellites, taking advantage of its optical and thermal sensors to provide an integrated package of measurements. ESA's Earth Explorer missions are meant to utilize new ways of observing Earth from space in order to improve our understanding of the...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
... light for its JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - mission to study the ice-covered world along with... unprecedented opportunities to bridge studies of Earth's oceans and mission concepts to explore oceans in our solar system." Sobron and Barge, along...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... discovered an exoplanet around our nearest star four years ago, it seemed the perfect object in which to mount an exploration mission in the hopes of finding life. But then further studies showed that Proxima b was subjected to regular outbursts...
31 May 2021
JAXA to send a transforming robot to the Moon in 2022
... trip to the Moon. JAXA expects the transformable rover to play active roles in future lunar exploration missions as well as being a pathfinder mission for its crewed pressurised rover which the agency advertised for the first time in 2019...
28 July 2021
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by shock waves
... use in about five years, would be able to operate for extended periods of time for use on deep-space exploration missions.
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...improves health, security, clean energy, technology and our overall quality of life. In the future, NASA human exploration missions must remain independent of the start-stop cycle of the US, or any government’s, shifting political allegiances. In the...
