... project is a € 4.5 million European Union Horizon 2020 project (reference number 636501) supported via the COMPET-07-2014 - Space exploration - Life support sub-programme. It had its official kick-off in March of 2015 and will continue until...
... procedures, hiring and training the newcomers in the flight control team. Never before in the history of space exploration had a space probe reached a comet and tried to orbit around it. The flight dynamics and overall flight operations challenges...
... lies beneath. The search for life in the solar system has been one of the guiding goals of space exploration since its very conception. Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, is currently seen as one of the prime candidates...
... personalities involved, we have been able to learn more about Armstrong the man and his unique contribution to space exploration. The six Apollo Moon landing missions changed the world in many ways – raising and influencing technical...
... missions have been led mostly by NASA in the US, by Roscosmos in Russia and by JAXA in Japan. Europe is a main actor in space exploration but has lacked the goal of claiming part of the samples brought back by these missions. Sample return...
..., the lunar vicinity is a key area for the development of an affordable and sustainable space economy that would completely transform the current landscape of space exploration [2]. High-speed lunar rover Current rover designs are not suited for...