27 June 2017
New Roll-Out Solar Array tested at the ISS
... administration has called for the cancellation of the project, if it were to get the go-ahead, it is envisaged that the robotic mission could utilise a technology like ROSA to visit a large near-Earth asteroid, retrieve a multi-ton boulder from...
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...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
...Mars assuming ideal conditions. That’s fine for cargo or robotic missions, but for humans it’s simply too long. Radiation from... the door to faster crew transfers, more agile robotic missions, and perhaps even a permanent cadence of interplanetary ...
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...
