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...
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...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... has just launched its own plastic printer prototype as a technology demonstration for long term manned exploration missions. As on the ISS, manned missions could carry 3D printers to ensure full self-reliance as they fly for months or years from...
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...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
...valuable asset for Earth-analogue simulations of a wide range of space missions. The Gandolfi-II suit comes, in the terrestrial configuration, close ...environments like Antarctica. MOONWALK shows that the exploration and the exploitation of space is an...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... and imagination. System reliability is essential to the success of a mission but the external environment is a source of continuous discovery and surprises – otherwise why would we call it ‘exploration? – and to cope with this the system requires...
