Articles tagged: Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)

• 21 February 2020 MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos

  JAXA’s Martian Moon eXploration (MMX) has been given the green light to proceed to the development phase from its previous Pre-Project phase status, paving the way forward for the agency to send a spacecraft to Mars' moon Phobos and to pluck...

  • Deimos
  • Hayabusa-2
  • JAXA
  • Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)
  • Phobos
• 05 July 2019 JAXA, DLR to cooperate on Martian moons mission

  ... for analysis. Currently under development and scheduled for launch around 2024, the MMX (Martian Moons eXploration), is, as the title suggests, a mission to explore Mar’s moons. At present, there are two dominant theories to explain where Phobos and...

  • CNES
  • DLR
  • Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
  • Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)
  • Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT)
• January 2019 Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began

  ... the formation of stars and planets. In addition to Hayabusa2, Elizabeth assists with the global outreach on JAXA’s Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) and BepiColombo (Mercury) missions. She is also a feature writer for the NASA NExSS ‘Many Worlds’ blog...

  • asteroid
  • Hayabusa2
  • JAXA
  • Ryugu
  • Spacecraft
  Authors: Elizabeth Tasker     Makoto Yoshikawa    
• September 2019 A new era in planetary defence missions

  ... Group. Currently, she is the Deputy Principal Investigator for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission and the Coordination Lead on NASA’s DART mission. Asteroid...

  • DART
  • Didymos
  • Hera
  • NASA
  • planetary defence
  Authors: Nancy L Chabot     Sean Blair