August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... if another Scorpion (or a specialist boost stage) contributes to the initial heliocentric injection, then Mars and Venus orbits could be within reach. The Mars mission would have sufficient payload for specialised landing systems that would enable...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
..., the programme has been regularly blighted with reports of delays after delays. So too has its intended Mars mission. On a more positive note, both SpaceX and Boeing got their respective NASA financed Commercial Crew Program...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... successful: We’ve learned a lot that will benefit future missions to Mars and elsewhere, and we thank our German partners from ...The mole’s design was based on soil seen by previous Mars missions – soil that proved very different from what the mole ...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
....com/science/headquarters/ 2013/sep/09/neuroscience-psychology 7: For further details see BBC TV (2013), ‘Man on Mars: Mission to the Red Planet’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vpc74 8: See Nicholas Welly (2010) ‘Enlightened State Interest...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... which Germany is contributing the eROSITA instrument. In addition, Germany has provided instruments for nearly every NASA Mars mission. An example of a very successful international project in which DLR participated is the European Rosetta...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... China’s splashed back into the ocean and the US made it only after losing quite a few Mariner Mars missions. On similar lines, ESA has established competencies in specific areas of planetary exploration, as has the Japanese Space Agency...
