November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... are just one of the many extra and important risks to be assessed in planning for future long-term exploration missions. Based on the latest standard procedures employed on Earth for a specific dental problem, an adapted procedure for space...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
...detection technologies to further the search for extraterrestrial life. So far, says the report, NASA’s planetary exploration missions have tended to focus more strongly on geological perspectives, however this should be addressed so that the rapidly...
08 February 2021
UAE Hope probe poised to enter Mars' orbit tomorrow
The UAE’s first interplanetary exploration mission, the Hope probe, is expecting to enter Mars’ orbit tomorrow (9 February) at about 7.42 pm UAE time (15:42 GMT) following its ...
31 October 2016
Swarm constellation helps figure out why satellites lose their GPS signal
... example of a technical challenge being turned into exciting science, a true essence of an Earth Explorer mission such as Swarm,” added Rune Floberghagen, ESA’s Swarm mission manager. “These new findings demonstrate that GPS can be used as a tool for...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
...." The Agency has invested more than $15 billion in these three programs since 2012 in order to get its Exploration Mission - 1 (EM-1) off the ground, but despite mounting costs – estimated to reach approximately $23 billion by the end of fiscal year...
31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
... ‘forward to the moon and on to Mars,’ but also provide a great opportunity for students to participate in a space exploration mission that will train them for space or related science careers,” said Fenstermaker, a research professor at the Desert...
