22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
...Sputnik, Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, announced that “a spacecraft carrying cosmonauts will fly around the moon in 2028, and...said the first test launch of the new generation Oryol spacecraft is slated for August or September 2023. If everything ...
25 August 2021
Russia's Luna-25 mission postponed over 'problems during testing'
...at the earliest due to "problems" encountered with the spacecraft during crucial tests. "The launch of the Luna-25 automatic...When eventually ready, Luna-25 will become Russia’s first domestic spacecraft in its post-Soviet history to head to the Moon. ...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
... System (SLS) is due to fly an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon is also highly unlikely to achieve its ...programs—the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems—NASA senior leaders acknowledged the ...
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
.... In the early 1990s, radar imaging from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft revealed a world of volcanoes and extensive lava flows. But ...suggests that the lava flows examined by the Venus Express spacecraft are no more than several years old say Filiberto and...
27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
... of polar craters and perpetually covered in darkness. It's a few years off yet, but when ESA’s Bepi-Colombo spacecraft enters Mercury’s orbit in 2025, with a suite of instruments designed to study the surface and internal composition of the...
17 July 2018
Harris Corporation to provide audio system for first human deep-space mission
... for NASA’s first human deep-space exploration mission, scheduled to launch in 2022 onboard the Orion spacecraft. Orion is NASA’s first spacecraft designed for long-duration, deep-space exploration by humans. Harris was selected by Lockheed Martin...
