30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
... 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...this emotional day for both the ESA and the global space industry, as the world says good-bye to Rosetta, ...
02 August 2017
First iodine fuelled thrusters pass critical design tests
... need for an internal hot cathode. The thruster is targeted for use on two deep-space CubeSat missions that will hitch a ride on NASA’s Space Launch System; Morehead State University’s Lunar IceCube and Arizona State University’s LunaH...
22 December 2021
Scientists present the first-ever analysis of samples retrieved from Ryugu
...and measurements taken by Hayabusa2 during its mission that the ancient space rock was a rubble pile asteroid. Rubble piles form when ...sample return of a material in the gas state from deep space. Now however, scientists have had chance to analyse the...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... controllers also may not be able to confirm these milestones at the times listed above because of the complexity of deep-space communications. The flow of detailed engineering data (called telemetry) in near-real-time relies on a new kind of relay...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...human and robotic skills, national and international efforts, commercial and government capabilities in Earth orbit and deep space conducting exploration, and pioneering all working together. The word ‘journey’ is also an important one to contemplate...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... billion times less than for near- Earth missions and so the spacecraft is equipped with a state-of-theart deep space transponder. The spacecraft is travelling so close to the S un that the solar flux it will experience is 12 times higher than...
