... 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...
... Yinghuo 1 Mars-exploration spacecraft. Yinghuo-1 was left stranded in Earth orbit after the Russian Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft it was hitching a ride with, stalled before reaching outer space in November 2011. The probe and...