August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
...star system within a generation. To achieve a transit time comparable to current long-term space exploration missions to the outer solar system, the Starshot mission would need to last a few decades at most. This requires a probe to travel about 1000...
30 January 2017
Orion engineers test for vibrations and SLS completes a major review
... components and materials for the EUS, and build up tooling," he added. NASA is currently on track to launch an uncrewed Exploration Mission (EM) in 2018, however the detailed SLS assessment is a big step forward in being ready for more capable human...
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...
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...
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.
