January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... missions currently under development will also address small body migration concepts. JAXA’s Martian Moons Exploration mission (MMX) will go to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos to determine whether they are captured asteroids, while NASA’s Lucy...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... most innovative aspect of NASA’s approach to future exploration and science programmes is to de-orbit the ISS and...fabricate and deploy, and less costly to operate. When the Moon exploration programme was re-examined by a blue-ribbon review team at ...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
... the US pushing a ‘Back to the Moon” exploration campaign but this time with an emphasis on...topic as our nation's space program returns to a focus on lunar exploration," said Dr. Kurt Retherford, the principal investigator of the LAMP instrument from...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... economy, inherited money will grow faster than both output and income. This artist’s view of future Moon exploration (bearing more than a passing similarity to Apollo) was released by Boeing in April as a concept supporting NASA’s Deep Space...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
... also send a 30-ton spacecraft to the moon, which is equivalent to four Chang'e-5 probes.” Expected to be a kerosene-liquid oxygen fuelled rocket, the former deputy chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Programme said that the technologies...
28 June 2019
NASA drone to search for signs of early life on Titan
.... “It’s remarkable to think of this rotorcraft flying miles and miles across the organic sand dunes of Saturn’s largest moon, exploring the processes that shape this extraordinary environment. Dragonfly will visit a world filled with a wide variety...
