January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
..., which are critical in offering a commercially viable removal service. The CLEAR mission will also demonstrate a UK-developed robotic arm in orbit, validating technologies that will form the backbone of the wider in-space servicing, assembly and...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... includes $217 million for the Asteroid Redirect Mission, the agency’s three-year-old proposal to send a robotic spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid and bring back a boulder from it to cislunar space to be visited by astronauts. That request...
05 May 2017
Will CubeRover revolutionise planetary surface exploration?
... at Astrobotic. With the low cost and mass of a CubeRover, it has the potential to offer a new paradigm for robotic planetary missions as instead of deploying a single, large rover, to amble about the surface, teams of CubeRovers could operate...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
... scientists from the University of Central Florida have been working on in collaboration with a private space company – Honeybee Robotics based in California – and it works remarkably well. Called WINE, which stands for the World Is Not Enough...
27 August 2019
Soyuz MS-14 successfully docks with ISS on second attempt
... crew going, Skybot F-850 is making its debut at the ISS. Cosmonauts plan to perform a number of tests on the robot including movement tests and how well it can communicate with the station’s Russian crew. It will also...
13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
...for us,” says ESA’s Science Team Leader of Human and Robotic Exploration Jennifer Ngo-Anh “some cosmic rays hit the ...and around the Moon,” explains ESA’s director of Human and Robotic Exploration David Parker. “As we prepare for the next generation of...
