July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... would require considerable financing in return for disputable scientific gain (robot missions are usually 100 to 1000 times less expensive than that of a manned mission with equivalent scientific results). These ambitious projects raise such...
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...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
... science community confused and angered after the agency decided to scrap it’s Resource Prospector mission - it’s only planned robotic mission to the Moon’s surface. The move is seen as somewhat of a puzzlement given the U.S Presidents determined...
June 2018
We live on a planet!
...achieve our independent goals as part of a greater common mission. If, as 15 countries from around the world, we...is powerful too. And even the view of Earth from our robotic missions to distant planets is helping us rediscover Earth from a new ...
13 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... the Russian space agency. Russia’s space program — as described in the Roscosmos press release — will include a series of robotic missions to lunar orbit and the surface of the moon in the 2020s in preparation for a visit by cosmonauts in the 2030s...
30 January 2017
Orion engineers test for vibrations and SLS completes a major review
..., however the detailed SLS assessment is a big step forward in being ready for more capable human and robotic missions to deep space which are planned for as early as 2021. An expanded view of the next configuration of NASA's Space...
