... a series of proposed ESA missions to the Moon, configured for different operations including cargo delivery, sample return or resource prospecting. Challenges Lunar exploration creates new potential commercial opportunities with diversified business...
... orbit but also on the Moon and Mars? The other inspirator that we have highlighted is an icy moon sample-return mission to ask the fundamental question about life ‘out there’. Astrobiologists say that if there is life somewhere...
... Martian environment to recycle and print electronics and a system that harvests water in situ to enable low-cost sample return missions to icy moons through micro-landers. “The 2016 NIAC Phase I competition was fierce, as usual. All...
..., which the country plans to have up and running by 2022. The rocket will also launch Chang'e 5, a robotic sample-return Moon mission, scheduled for 2017. Other Long March rockets, the Long March 6 and Long March...
... riding on the success of the Long March 5 which was touted to be the rocket of choice to get China's Chang'e-5 sample-return mission to the Moon in November 2017. In addition, this latest flight was seen as a testbed for the ability...
... Station in the coming year, if all goes according to plan. Last but not least, the Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return will be heading to Earth in December over the Woomera Test Range site in Australia to deliver its cargo of pristine...