April 2025
Racing to the Moon
.... It can be argued that these missions do not yet approach the scientific and technical sophistication of, say, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, with its long drive over the remnants of a river delta and climb to the rim...
22 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 (...
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...
