February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... 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...
12 April 2016
Visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions
... 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...
04 November 2016
China launches new heavy-lift rocket
..., 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...
04 July 2017
Rocket failure could delay China's Chang'e 5 mission
... 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...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
... 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...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... 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...
