14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
...out the world’s first dedicated commercial small satellite mission to Mars. With a proposed launch date expected as early as 2022 for... the first-of-its-kind CubeSat mission to Mars, the consortium could jointly develop and launch a...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... is the closest thing on Earth to interplanetary exploration. ESA is studying the effects of isolation there to prepare for a mission to Mars While a Mars crew will be a peer group in many respects, a crew commander and deputy would seem the likely...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
... orbit insertion to interplanetary transfer must be powered by the propellant carried at launch. And for a round-trip crewed mission to Mars, that delta-V budget climbs quickly to over 20,000 metres per second. Escaping Earth’s gravity alone requires...
03 June 2016
Elon Musk: Mars mission architecture to be unveiled in September
... technical consults. “The basic game plan is that we’re going to send a mission to Mars with every Mars opportunity from 2018 onwards,” Musk said. Launch windows for Mars missions open every 26 months, with the next opening in the spring of 2018...
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
...Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Along with Perseverance and Tianwen-1, the UAE's Hope mission makes up the trio of missions heading to Mars this month, Perseverance is the successor to NASA’s Curiosity rover, and will head to the 49 kilometre...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... his mark. Plans to construct a lunar base - which might also serve as a staging platform for future missions to Mars and beyond - were outlined at an international symposium at ESTEC (the European Space Research and Technology Centre) in Noordwijk...
