09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
The European Space Agency (ESA) have teamed up with Airbus to design a new rover that will head to Mars and retrieve the first ever martian soil samples from the planet to be later brought back safely to Earth for analysis. The rover, which will be ...
23 November 2018
3D printed body parts being studied for future astronauts
... defining a development roadmap and timeline, with the aim that this group becomes a scientific working group in future, pushing progress on.” Bioprinters work essentially the same way as standard 3D printers, but instead of using plastics or metals...
25 November 2020
Solar astronomers "listening" to the Sun can now predict future sunspots
... to identify and track active regions emergent on the far side of the Sun has important implications for future space weather predictive capabilities,” said Dr. Carrie Black, Program Director at NSF. “GONG continues to be a valuable tool for...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
... is speeding up production of Orion astronaut capsules by opening a 5,000-square-metre “digitally-transformed factory of the future” in Titusville, Florida, near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Work at Lockheed Martin’s new Spacecraft Test, Assembly...
24 August 2016
Future Space Leaders Will Meet at IAC 2016
.... The panelists will speak during the Next Generation Plenary and discuss innovative solutions for the future of space exploration. Special attention will be paid to making space affordable to countries around the globe. Each of the...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
...’s lives across the globe. As we celebrate the past, let’s inspire our friends and family for the future that we are building."