July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... only the robotic sample return system succeeded: Luna-16 (1970), Luna-20 (1972) and Luna 24 (1976) returned a total of ... the RAeS and a Senior Member of the AIAA. His third book Returning People to the Moon After Apollo - Will It Be Another 50 Years?...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... maintenance of communications and rendezvous operations between separate spacecraft in interplanetary space will be essential for planned sample-return missions to Mars or other bodies. The mission has put out an announcement of opportunity for use...
26 April 2021
Microbes could potentially live beneath Mars' surface, new study suggests
... most promising rocks and soils with its drill and setting them aside so that a future sample-return mission can send them back to Earth for further analysis. But if Percy isn’t up to the task, recent ...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...Planetary Protection policy 12 regarding the different levels of protection to be afforded to planets themselves and to any samples returned to Earth. Broadly speaking, the level of protection depends upon the likelihood of the planet concerned being...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... programme enters its third phase with the upcoming lunar sample return of Chang’e-5. India may startle the space community with...ILOA has made it its goals to see an all-inclusive human return to the Moon for good. About the author Steve Durst is ...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... participation in ESA’s space exploration missions, with several Portuguese companies involved in missions such as ExoMars, Mars Sample Return, the International Habitation Module (I-HAB) part of the Lunar Gateway, the future European Large Logistic...
