01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
... rovers or orbiters to the Red Planet this year all around the middle of the year, including NASA's Mars 2020 which is aiming for a mid-July launch. The European Space Agency (ESA) also plans to launch the...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...costs of onward flight across interplanetary space will be much higher. Artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars. Testing techniques There is a growing need to understand the budgets of different resources on the Moon, asteroids...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... of the samples selected and cached on the surface by the Mars 2020 rover, a sample selected by a later robotic mission, or a sample selected during the Mars Base Camp telerobotic operations. Mars Base Camp architecture provides the crew with the...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
...Mars. 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...dropped off on a flyby trajectory to Mars. Science and exploration missions are possible...
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...
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...
