21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
... building a near-infrared spectrometer, while DLR (Germany) is to design the rover, which could explore the surface of Phobos. In addition to the sampling device and sample return capsule, JAXA’s contributions include a LIDAR laser altimeter, a dust...
20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
... by the general public. Work to modify the offshore platforms is now underway, which have now been renamed Phobos and Deimos after the two moons of Mars. The purchase of the oil rigs was first identified...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... of the Mars surface robotic operation will be to place a sample into Martian orbit near the orbit of Phobos for the Phobos sortie mission to retrieve. This sample may be one of the samples selected and cached on the surface...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... as bases for humans exploring the Martian system. Phobos in particular shows evidence for water signatures in spectroscopic... actual potential for in situ resources. Dedicated missions to Phobos have failed to date but the interest of the community...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
...open and available to the wider scientific community. Exploring Phobos After the brilliant results of the Vega project, ... as it was. The standalone small station meant for Phobos was put together at the Lavochkin Scientific Production Organisation One...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
...speeds, arrivals and departures would be accomplished using taxis. Phobos Space Elevator, which catches the taxi released from the ...ribbon to trail above or below the latitude of both Phobos and Deimos. Suppose there are just four Space Trains ...
