08 February 2021
UAE Hope probe poised to enter Mars' orbit tomorrow
... always includes an element of risk and we are keenly aware that 50 percent of all missions to Mars have failed,” Omran Sharaf, Project Director of the Emirates Mars Mission, said. If all goes according to plan, then the UAE will become the...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
... data could enable other advanced robotic flying vehicles that might be part of future robotic and human missions to Mars. Its first objective however, is just to last the night. In order to work, Ingenuity has to survive frigid temperatures...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
...in space, citing it as a first step towards the colonisation of Mars. Similarly, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was the first to succeed ...to begin to finance larger and more expansive trade missions across the world, eventually culminating in an empire that...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... producing spores for an extended period of time when they were not needed. More than just biology On a mission to Mars, astronauts will experience reduced gravity and their spacecraft drastic external temperature fluctuations, low pressure and...
May 2017
Recipe for success on flights to Mars
... study’s overall goal is to investigate crew selection, performance and cohesion; and how to apply those lessons to a crewed mission to Mars. Our mission, ran for eight months up to June 2015. During this time, we lived in a dome on the side of the...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... research groups, research laboratories and startups. NASA JPL’s Mars Cube One (MarCO) mission consist of a pair of 6U CubeSats that were launched alongside NASA’s InSight mission to Mars in May 2018. The CubeSats were dropped off on an Earth...
