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...
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-...
11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
..., Zhang Rongqiao, chief designer of China's first Mars exploration mission unveiled four new images of Mars that include the landing site... equipment and propellant for the upcoming crewed Shenzhou-12 mission. Both the core module and cargo craft are ...
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...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... associate space with the latest and greatest technology. This is sometimes true, because operating a complex robotic mission in a very challenging environment millions of kilometres away is not easy. However, these challenges also produce a paradox...
January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
... further from our home planet. Both the idea and the reality of human missions to space impact us in a far deeper way than robotic missions alone ever will. As individuals we have the power to accept this Earthrise truth and...
