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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
