04 August 2016
Experts to Discuss Mars Sample Return at IAC 2016
... science community for many years. Though multiple scenarios of international partnerships and robotic missions have been proposed, the cost of the MSR mission remains high. A special session, to be held during the 67th AIC in Guadalajara on Thursday...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... least risk tolerant (expensive flagship or human spaceflight missions) and Class D is the most risk tolerant (smaller robotic missions). LCROSS and RP are both designated Class D missions. This classification enables accepting greater technical and...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... sail to leave the ecliptic plane. Before committing a crew to visit a NEA or Mars moon, carrying out precursor robotic missions is important to assess candidate objects Solar sail limitations Before describing some of the exciting new solar sail...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
...it to cislunar space to be visited by astronauts. That request includes $66.7 million for work on the robotic spacecraft, called the Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM). Space technology came out ahead in the budget, with a proposed $827 million...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
...the target body, more stringent constraints are applied for missions to solar system bodies where there is significant scientific...for extraterrestrial life. Clearly, human missions are different from robotic missions. NASA and other space agencies ...
October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... we expect the first uncrewed test flight for NASA’s Artemis programme, Artemis-1, to be launched. Furthermore, several robotic missions to explore the Moon are scheduled in the framework of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme, as well...
