21 March 2018
NASA aims for the Moon with commercial help
...-focused exploration campaign to increase science activities near and on the Moon, with a series of increasing complex commercial robotic missions, and an ultimate aim to return humans to the lunar surface. In the last few days, the agency has...
December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
... near-term activities on our human journey to Mars are going to be defined by a regular cadence of compelling human and robotic missions building to more complex missions over time, from a one-year increment aboard the station, to the proving ground...
09 March 2016
Components of ExoMars 2016 come together in preparation of launch next week
...mission to Mars. ExoMars 2016 is one part of ESA’s robotic mission to hunt for signs of life on the Red Planet. Two missions ...the other is planned with a launch date of 2018. This latter mission includes a rover that will carry a drill and a suite of ...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
... at a large aperture ground telescope at Palomar Mountain Observatory in California, near San Diego. "Having our robotic mission test technology that we hope will help us eventually communicate with people in deep space is excellent integration...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
... on lunar activities, including subscription for the iHAB and ESPRIT modules for the Lunar Gateway, lunar robotic missions, and the European service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Another big winner of the meeting was...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
...or upper section. Like everyone else working on NASA’s next robotic mission to Mars, and anxiously awaiting some good news at JPL, ...and matches its 4.5 metre girth for a planetary mission record, Lockheed Martin has actually strengthened the aluminum-...
