11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
... in the coming days. At a ceremony in Beijing today, Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China's first Mars exploration mission unveiled four new images of Mars that include the landing site panorama, the martian landscape and a selfie of the rover...
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 ...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
...50C and +50C. As a simulation test-bed for preparing human missions to Mars and to the Moon, SHEE is self-sufficient for a two... for two weeks, as they would in a nominal short mission space scenario. SHEE is thus the first European space habitat ...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
...reactions to confinement over periods of 14, 105 and 510 days, designed to replicate the conditions of a mission to Mars. Although findings from the Mars simulations are less conclusive with regards to changes in mood and the TQP (Basner et al., 2014...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... eventually bring humans to other planetary bodies. Besides serving as a proving ground for future human and robotic missions to Mars, the lunar vicinity is a key area for the development of an affordable and sustainable space economy that would...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... that is now becoming a reality could soon become ‘standard operating practice’ for space activities. Recent missions on Mars and the Moon are already ‘robotised’ and ‘digitalised’ with rovers exhibiting significant elements of autonomy. For...
