April 2018
Developing Mars
... emphasise that mining on Mars is easier and cheaper than mining asteroids. On an asteroid, mining robots face very difficult challenges. Reliable robotic autonomy inside an unpredictable, low-g cloud of gas, dust and shattered rock is a hard problem...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... must eventually be answered in order to create a full legal framework for transaction. Ownership rights A prototype of the ARM robotic capture module system is tested with a mock asteroid boulder in its clutches at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... of September. The MINERVA-II (MIcro Nano Experimental Robot Vehicles for Asteroid) rovers are successors to the rover... take advantage of the information now being collected by the three robots on the asteroid surface. To add to this data, Hayabusa2...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... The US subordinated all other human space programmes and robotic Moon programmes to President Kennedy’s objective. Thus Gemini ...delays to the overall programme. In the end only the robotic sample return system succeeded: Luna-16 (1970), Luna-20 (1972...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...the Chinese goddess Chang’e, has three steps - a robotic programme, a human spaceflight programme and the establishment of .... China’s Chang’e programme has three steps - a robotic programme, a human spaceflight programme and the establishment of lunar...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... GaoFen satellite constellation, which was used for mapping, surveillance, and remote sensing to complete the mission. Robots and Internet of Things (IoT) devices served to reduce contact between healthcare service providers and infected patients...
