April 2025
Strapped for success - from racetrack to orbit
.... These innovations would align with the growing vision of sustainable and scalable human presence on the Moon. As exploration missions push further into deep space, these systems will need to evolve to address new challenges, including prolonged...
November 2025
Unlocking the secrets of Europa
... reach Jupiter. International collaboration The quest to explore Europa is a global endeavour. NASA’s Europa Clipper mission complements the European Space Agency’s JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission, which will also study Europa, along with...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... impossible.” Radzanowski said that the budget supports a 2018 launch of the first SLS/Orion mission, Exploration Mission (EM) 1, and a 2023 launch of EM-2. Progress made to date thanks to increased funding, though, could still allow an EM-2 launch...
18 June 2018
ESA Council backs Lunar gateway venture
... European contributions to an international Mars Sample Return mission or other sample return missions; and examining scenarios and mission concepts for lunar exploration missions supporting the objectives of the European scientific community...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
... space sector that leverage emerging markets and capabilities to meet NASA's exploration goals. While these key technologies will support NASA's science and human exploration missions in the future, these awards are yet another example of NASA...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
...’s latest ambitions as the beginning of a formidable space race with the US. As along with Mars, China is also crafting an exploration mission to study the Jovian system set for launch sometime around 2030 and has revealed plans to build...
