January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
The number of robotic missions currently investigating or selected to fly to a range of small bodies in...core. Artist’s concept depicting the spacecraft of NASA’s Psyche mission near the mission’s target, the metal asteroid Psyche, showing the five-...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... and exploration is set to become a new focus of international efforts. These will be based on initial robotic missions followed by significant exploration efforts including astronauts. Luna-27 spacecraft and its accommodation of PROSPECT elements...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... vision-based operations. Artist impression of Restore-L servicer extending its robotic arm to grasp and refuel a client satellite on orbit. Tele-robotic missions are impacted by communication latencies and therefore require tasks such as rendezvous...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... will eventually bring humans to other planetary bodies. Besides serving as a proving ground for future human and robotic missions to Mars, the lunar vicinity is a key area for the development of an affordable and sustainable space economy that...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... be one of the samples selected and cached on the surface by the Mars 2020 rover, a sample selected by a later robotic mission, or a sample selected during the Mars Base Camp telerobotic operations. Mars Base Camp architecture provides the...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
..., July 2014. 3 NASA Fact Sheet, http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/663703main_flighttest1_fs_051812.pdf. 4 Stich, S. “Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission Overview”, presentation to the Small Bodies Assessment Group, http://www.lpi.usra.edu/sbag/meetings/jul2014...
