02 December 2014
Roscosmos plans deep space exploration
Russia is planning to recommence its uncrewed lunar sample return activities, ceased since the last lunar lander flown in 1974. Plans include three uncrewed craft – Lunas 25, 26 and 27 – flying in 2023-25. Subsequently, Luna 28 and 29 would provide ...
14 October 2016
Observable Universe is populated with 10 times as many galaxies as previously thought
..., whose lead author on the research paper is Christopher Conselice from the University of Nottingham, UK, painstakingly converted deep space images from Hubble and data from his team's previous work, into 3D, in order to make accurate measurements...
21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
...partners; NASA (USA) is contributing a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer, ESA (Europe) is listed as assisting with deep space communication equipment, CNES (France) is building a near-infrared spectrometer, while DLR (Germany) is to design the rover...
01 April 2020
Biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products for use on Mars or Earth
... products themselves, such as fuel and drugs, which would otherwise be too expensive to ship from Earth. "For a deep space mission, you care about the payload weight, and biological systems have the advantage that they...
02 December 2020
Astronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time
.... “ASKAP is a major technological development that puts our scientists, engineers and industry in the driver's seat to lead deep space discovery for the next generation,” says Australia’s Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, Karen Andrews...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
... on Mars, plus the challenges of covid. What an accomplishment.” Perservance’s descent to the planet was monitored by both NASA’s Deep Space Network and it’s two orbiters; the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and the Mars Atmospheric and Volatile...
