August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...cubesat kitchen cabinet’ has helped to conceive some new, exciting science missions using deep space cubesats and nanosats It is common enough for deep space missions to use a gravity assist manoeuvre at Venus to provide a boost in velocity to propel...
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...
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…
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...
