04 August 2016
Experts to Discuss Mars Sample Return at IAC 2016
... 09:30 am, will discuss the possibility of human and robotic collaboration on the Mars Sample Return mission. In light of NASA's planned Journey to Mars mission and crewed missions to the Moon, new opportunities may arise that would facilitate sample...
23 April 2018
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration, Vols 1 & 2
..., with sections on Phobos and Deimos and Mars mission data, but the great majority of the book comprises a “chronological sequence of missions and events”. Although this is a history of Mars exploration, the most important differentiating factor (its...
23 March 2026
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration Vol.3
..., especially those following the wheel tracks of the rovers. The first volume covered Mars missions up to 2003, the second spanned 2004-2014 and this third volume – with the subtitle “Curiosity, Insight ...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... and the European Space Agency. Success is far from assured, however; historically more than half of all Mars missions have failed. Smaller space players, such as Indonesia, Taiwan and Singapore, are ursuing satellite communications technology...
November 2016
Emergency dental treatment on way to Mars
... and the assumed scenario for the replacement of a dental restoration is based on the fictional accident of an astronaut during a Mars mission. In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke escaped injury after he accidentally fell over during the setup...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... of a fast transit to the red planet. Nanosats could ride along as ballast to make up the launch mass on larger Mars missions, or make their way there as free-flying spacecraft. With a few km/s of Delta-V (propulsion) capability, free-flying nanosats...
