July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
.... The mission set the stage for the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity, Mars Phoenix, the Mars Science Laboratory and the upcoming Mars 2020 rovers. Mother-daughter architectures using CubeSats were encouraged on the recent round...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... futures in space and we actually don’t know which one is right until we go out there and explore…” The Mars 2020 rover will carry an experiment called MOXIE that will attempt, for the first time, to convert a sample of Martian...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... must be generated for the mission duration. They will learn to use the resources available on Mars from precursor missions like the Mars 2020 rover, which will carry an experiment to investigate the technology needed to extract oxygen from the...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
...organisations are responding to this interest by developing rovers with robotic arms. Getting samples back to Earth...series of sample tubes, based on those developed for the Mars 2020 rover, into a sample return canister capable of returning 130 grams ...
