December 2014
Gods and space
Martian celebration – An art installation in Kolkata, inspired by India’s successful Mars mission, forms part of the Hindu Durga Puja festival, which celebrates the triumph of good over evil
December 2014
Flying saucers return
Spectacular catch – NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is retrieved from the Pacific after a near-space test flight. The LDSD project is evaluating landing technologies for future Mars missions
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... first country to land on the lunar farside with the Chang’e-4 rover, while in 2020 it launched its first Mars mission which included an orbiter, lander and rover. And in the early 2020s China has deployed its long...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... years and we act as a sort of strategic sounding board. One of the things we recommended to them, for the Emirate Mars Mission for example, is that they employ what we call independent review boards - people with expertise in planetary science...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... elevator to deliver it to the Martian surface. In the 1980s, Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin proposed that the cost of Mars missions could be greatly reduced by the use of large space stations, called ‘castles’, in cyclic orbits which, once established...
17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
... simulating volcanic degassing, atmospheric escape, and crustal hydration on Mars, a team headed by Caltech PhD candidate Eva Scheller, say...water loss, but findings from the last decade of Mars missions have pointed to the fact that there was this ...
