13 June 2016
NASA signs an agreement with United Arab Emirates
...future projects that contribute to exploring the Red Planet. Missions to our martian neighbour by NASA have recently come ...both parties and extend the reach of the UAE to Mars, as its current mission is limited to an unmanned probe expected to reach ...
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 ...
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...
