21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
...and simulating landings to improve spacecraft designs, the MMX mission team will now move onto the development... one. Armed with a corer to extract material from the moon, the MMX spacecraft is planning to land for several hours on Phobos to collect a ...
05 July 2019
JAXA, DLR to cooperate on Martian moons mission
... Currently under development and scheduled for launch around 2024, the MMX (Martian Moons eXploration), is, as the title suggests, a ...the spacecraft and a newly developed ground station. MMX will achieve its mission objectives by entering a quasi...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
...small body migration concepts. JAXA’s Martian Moons Exploration mission (MMX) will go to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos ...small body impacts on the surface and we eagerly await JAXA’s MMX mission as it will help determine the amount of this Mars ...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... by sample-return missions. Artist impression of the MMX spacecraft around Phobos and Deimos. Basic elements Planetary ... regarding the International JAXA-led Martian Moons eXploration mission (MMX). This is an ambitious project that will travel to ...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... of stars and planets. In addition to Hayabusa2, Elizabeth assists with the global outreach on JAXA’s Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) and BepiColombo (Mercury) missions. She is also a feature writer for the NASA NExSS ‘Many Worlds’ blog...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission and the Coordination Lead on NASA’s DART mission. Asteroid 6899 Nancychabot is named in her honour. Sean...
