18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
..., and a ground-penetrating radar. Riding along, stowed under Perseverance’s belly pan, will be the Mars helicopter Ingenuity. Part of Perseverance’s mission is to collect samples to leave behind in caches that a future rover could collect for return...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
...planet is one of the major goals of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission and its Perservance rover. Nicknamed Percy, the small... samples for a possible return to Earth by future Mars sample return missions from its landing location in Jezero Crater. Jezero Crater...
14 May 2021
China is about to land its Zhurong rover on Mars
... Providing the landing is a success, Zhurong has a minimum life expectancy of 90 Martian days. China’s Tianwen-1 mission arrived at Mars on 10 February, 2021. After completing a complicated manoeuvre to enter a temporary parking orbit two weeks later...
17 May 2021
China's Zhurong rover touches down on Mars
...He encouraged those involved to continue working hard in the mission's next steps. Vice-Premiers Han Zheng and Liu He ...after Xi's letter was read. The touchdown of Tianwen 1 on Mars was the latest example of China's rapidly expanding presence in outer...
10 December 2020
SpaceX's Starship test flight explodes during vertical landing manoeuvre
... and most elaborate flight yet for the rocketship that Elon Musk says could carry people to Mars in as little as six years. "This suborbital flight is designed to test a number of objectives, from how the vehicle's three...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... (UAE) as the country, which is a relative newcomer to the space industry, is due to launch its first planetary-science mission to Mars. Scheduled to launch from a remote Japanese island, Tanegashima, during a narrow launch window at 20:51:27 UTC/GMT...
