11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
... in the coming days. At a ceremony in Beijing today, Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China's first Mars exploration mission unveiled four new images of Mars that include the landing site panorama, the martian landscape and a selfie of the rover...
19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
... by 2024 in preparation for a human mission to Mars. SAMPLR will be mounted on a yet-to-be-named lander and will be used to acquire samples of lunar regolith. The arm is a flight spare from the Mars Exploration Rover mission, which included the long...
November 2018
Pole star rising
...first chairman of the COPUOS Legal Subcommittee of UNOOSA Mars explorers The weak factor so far has been the government...also become experts on pioneering projects related to the exploration of Mars. For the ExoMars mission, the design and construction...
04 March 2016
NASA Expected to Make a Decision on InSight Mars Lander in the Near Future
...In a presentation to a meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) on March 2, Bruce Banerdt, principal ... in California, landing on the Elysium Planitia region of Mars on November 26, the same landing site as previously planned...
25 March 2026
New issue of ROOM - is global space industry at a turning point?
... and systems that support human activity beyond Earth. The science section looks ahead to the future of Mars exploration and presents new theoretical perspectives in astrophysics, while additional sections dedicated to art and book reviews provide...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
... rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and supplies to the Moon on a single mission. The exploration of the Moon with NASA’s Artemis program includes preparations to send astronauts to Mars as part of America’s Moon to Mars exploration approach.
