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...
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...
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...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... by the extent of that engagement. Like others, I see Government continuing to lead the more risky but pioneering exploration missions. Industry follows when the business cases mature. Going from one to the other will inevitably involve...
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...
