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...
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...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... volume-space. This design philosophy is also driven by resource limitations and sustainability. Today’s human exploration missions primarily revolve around the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS was designed as an international laboratory...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... ESA Ministerial conference in November 2019, where new budgets for European space activities – including lunar exploration missions – will be allocated. Maximum temperatures of Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) at the Lunar South Pole. Areas never...
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...
