09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
... in over 210 space missions. The company’s Autonomous Systems Group will also be contributing to the ESA Mars rover mission. Although the UK is facing withdrawal from the European Union in a process known as “Brexit,” as ESA is independent of the...
02 September 2019
Strange substance discovered by China's lunar rover on far side of the Moon
... its landing site in the Von Kármán Crater, the rover has made a strange discovery; a gel-like substance with...prompted mission scientists to cancel other exploration plans for the rover and instead focus on studying the curious material to understand ...
08 February 2019
ESA's new Mars rover has a new name
...in our DNA, and in everything we do at ESA. Rosalind the rover captures this spirit and carries us all to the forefront of space exploration...and at the same time devising new technologies.” The rover will relay data to Earth through the Trace Gas ...
14 May 2021
China is about to land its Zhurong rover on Mars
... seven minutes of terror – faced recently by NASA’s Perservance rover in February – describes the minutes anxious mission staff back ... a magnetic field detector and a weather station, the rover is also equipped with a ground-penetrating radar to peer...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
...ancient environment may have been favourable for microbial life. The rover, currently targeted to launch in summer of 2020 for arrival...return to Earth by a future mission. "The Mars 2020 rover is the first step in a potential multi-mission campaign to...
11 December 2020
A US company is aiming to race rovers on the Moon next year
...Falcon 9 rocket next year, as a means to deploy the rovers. Based in Colorado, Lunar Outpost says it will utilise its ... from the development of its commercial resource-prospecting lunar rover – the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) – ...
