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 (...
14 April 2021
SNC launches independent subsidiary to expand space interests
... work, a propulsion business, and projects such as the descent brake mechanism that gently lowered the Perseverance rover to the surface of Mars in February - the company is “uniquely positioned”, as Ozmen put it, at an inflection point which...
21 May 2021
New study suggests organic salts are likely present on Mars
..., and will carry a Goddard instrument that will analyse the chemistry of these deeper Martian layers. NASA’s Perseverance rover is not equipped with an instrument that can detect organic salts, but the rover is collecting samples...
01 November 2022
NASA contractor to oversee Scottish spaceport construction
... services provider, delivering mission-tailored solutions and full life cycle aerospace capabilities, including the Mars Perseverance Rover and the Artemis deep space human exploration programme. Overseeing the construction and operational management...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... data ever collected on Mars. Together with weather instruments aboard NASA's Curiosity rover and its new Perseverance rover, which lands on 18 February, the three spacecraft will create the first meteorological network on another planet...
