12 November 2020
ESA and NASA to partner on Mars sample return mission
... space agencies are ready for the challenge after several decades of scientific advance and technical progress in Mars exploration. The Board acknowledged the longstanding cooperation between NASA and ESA in robotic and human space...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...analysis of small solar system bodies such as asteroids and comets. Makoto is also involved in JAXA’s NOZOMI (Mars Explorer) and the first Hayabusa mission. Makoto is additionally interested in the issue of planetary defence, which concerns potential...
15 November 2019
First public test of Mars lander for China ahead of 2020 launch
... it with the exception of those launched by NASA. The event at Huailai marked the first public appearance of China's Mars exploration mission, and was attended by a number of officials including Wu Yanhua, vice administrator of China National Space...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
... probes could soon put the Martian subsurface depths within reach. "The subsurface is one of the frontiers in Mars exploration," says Brown University professor Jack Mustard, co-leader of the study. "We've investigated the atmosphere, mapped the...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... of Extra-Vehicular Activities (EVA) on the Moon and Mars. The simulated surface EVAs included egress and ingress from a..., or extreme environments like Antarctica. MOONWALK shows that the exploration and the exploitation of space is an enabler of new...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
...its engines to slow the vehicle down enough to be captured by Mars' gravitational pull. The crucial "braking" operation was activated at ... re-established; “Just now, China’s first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1 probe, implemented near-fire ...
