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...
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...
14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from... the launch a success. The orbiter is designed to explore Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, three of Jupiter’s largest moons. It will make two close passes by Europa and ...
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...
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 ...
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...
