September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
...In addition to being the technological prototype for the 64 m dishes of NASA’s Deep Space Network, Parkes has played a vital role in various NASA and ESA deep space missions and also in the Apollo lunar programme. A view of the Parkes Radio Telescope...
01 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
...OMS engine and other thrusters, allowing the Orion to manoeuvre during its future deep space missions to asteroids, the Moon and eventually to Mars. As part of an... hopes of obtaining an ESA astronaut’s seat aboard a future Orion deep-space mission.
30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
... Alvaro Giménez, ESA's Director of Science. "Rosetta was on the drawing board even before ESA's first deep-space mission, Giotto, had taken the first image of a comet nucleus as it flew past Halley in 1986. The...
May 2020
Mixed reality in the design of space habitats
... contribute significantly to their general well-being. But such a luxury may not be practical on long-term, deep space missions. Mixed reality research In the near future, existing technological innovations such as mixed reality (MR) systems are...
January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
... radiation conditions communication with ground-based medical experts. Given the extreme autonomy of a deep space mission, it is necessary to provide a biomedical laboratory on board, and a flight surgeon should be clearly aware of its implementation...
23 April 2018
CubeSats lead the way for new NASA missions
... something that could potentially reach other planets in just a matter of years rather than decades, the future of deep space missions is looking decidedly small…
