March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
.... The RP15 terrestrial rover will provide mobility over surfaces and slopes analogous to those expected in lunar polar regions. This roving platform will carry a Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS) and Near Infrared Volatiles Spectrometer...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
...,” he continues. “This is an important resource because you can produce rocket propellant and oxygen from it. Both lunar polar regions are scientifically very promising places. A Moon village would also act as a ‘pit stop’ for the...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... affected space artists. Changing landscapes Mars was always seen as the most Earth-like planet. It has polar caps and dark areas which appear to change with the seasons. Due to contrast with the reddish...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... price point for smaller to medium class boosters - such as Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Minotaur C and the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle - are high enough to deter a single spacecraft provider from purchasing an entire booster for...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
... astronauts and their equipment. The Moon does, however, promise large amounts of natural ice at its frozen polar regions and, because it is only three days away, rescue and a quick return is feasible in an emergency. Mars, on the...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... there permanently. The same point had indeed been raised some years earlier by Charles Cockell, an experienced polar explorer, in a paper published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews in 2002. Musk’s proposed transport system has been designed...
