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...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... cooking. To perform work on the surface of the Moon (and eventually on Mars), special food mixtures for food intake inside a spacesuit must also be in place. Mars missions will require developing products with a shelf-life of 3-5 years and allow...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... system, Dawn could accomplish the same change in speed with less than 30 kilograms (65 pounds) of xenon. A typical Mars mission might complete its manoeuvre in less than 25 minutes, while Dawn might require more than three months...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... the President of the United States prioritize the development of a lunar vicinity Gateway as a precursor to human Moon and Mars missions. The Gateway concept enables the development and implementation of key technologies necessary for the long-term...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
... Xilinx XQRKU060 offers a 5-10 times performance enhancement even when compared with the devices used on the latest Mars missions. This opens up a very wide range of new applications including advanced signal processing in space, compressing and...
