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 ...
December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
... aboard the station, to the proving ground of a mission to an asteroid and, finally, to an Earth-independent mission to Mars. Groundbreaking space technologies will help enable these missions, stimulate the economy, contribute to the nation’s global...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... station on our natural satellite. We also know that NASA has expressed keen interest in sending a manned mission to Mars by 2030 even though such a programme would require considerable financing in return for disputable scientific gain (robot...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
...political power. Other space agencies had developed detailed plans for a permanent base to better prepare future missions to Mars. “When someone states that something is possible he is almost certainly right, when someone says something is impossible...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
...on Earth, and perhaps even higher during deep space missions to Mars. Returning from Mars we might even be faced with a factor of 1000... the exposure of the population on Earth. For future missions to Mars and the Moon, the risk to health will be much...
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...
