September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... site, close to the city of Alcântara, in the State of Maranhão. The Sonda family of sounding rockets I-IV. Perseverance in adversity Investment in the VLS-1 programme was reduced, resulting in continuous delays. Three prototype vehicles were built...
January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
... to have a high tolerance for dealing with the loneliness of pushing the new idea. Somehow they know to persevere, to keep on going. They aren’t frustrated when people aren’t paying attention. And when someone criticises them...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... designed to make their own decisions to explore, repair, identify and adapt during missions (e.g., NASA’s Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter) reusable launch vehicles, including the use of sophisticated AI to facilitate a return...
21 December 2015
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully
..., just six months after the June mishap, reminds us of this industry’s best qualities: agility, innovation and perseverance,” said Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, in a Dec. 21 statement.
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... week. The two are destined to reach Mars in February 2021, where they will also be joined by NASA’s Perseverance rover after it lifts off next week. The Tianwen-1 probe has a combined mass (including fuel) of about...
29 July 2020
Puzzling new gas signatures found on Mars
Just as NASA gets ready to send its Mars 2020, Perseverance rover to the Red Planet tomorrow, ESA’s long term martian resident, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (...
