20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
Moments from launching their country’s first interplanetary probe, scientists, government officials and diplomats representing the United Arab Emirates’ space program were already ...
28 August 2020
Clumps of bacteria could survive interplanetary journey, new study says
The long debated and often controversial theory of panspermia, the idea that life has been spread throughout the Universe by tiny microbes which have hitched a ride on objects as small as space dust and as big as planetoids, has been given a boost ...
08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... considers it unlikely they'll be heard from again. MarCO, short for Mars Cube One, was the first interplanetary mission to use a class of mini-spacecraft called CubeSats. The MarCOs - nicknamed EVE and WALL-E, after characters...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... refuelling network. Extension of the by now technologically mature Earth-Moon cycler stations to Earth-Mars orbits for interplanetary passenger transport. Crewed Mars landing craft would then be based on decades of experience with lunar landings and...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
..., our destination and the planets we wanted to use as slingshots to accelerate the spacecraft towards the comet. Travelling in interplanetary space means finding a road in space and time to ensure the spacecraft arrives at the encounters with the...
September 2023
How microorganisms survive space travel
...terms of preparing medical and biological support for human interplanetary missions. This is because conditions in Earth orbit ...during the entire history of its ejection from Mars, interplanetary transit to Earth, and passage through the atmosphere....
