April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... Chang’e architecture duplicate on a smaller scale China’s human mission plans for the early 2030s. The lunar sample return tested in miniature most of the operations and many of the technologies necessary to achieve a human landing. Thus, China...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... water in some mineral phases, and also the sample returned by the Soviet Luna-24 mission was reported to ... thermal hardware and harness are not shown. Apart from analyses of returned samples, the main source of information on lunar water (in the form...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
... asked for; “Orion does not have specific storage to match the HLS [Human Landing System] sample return volume. Sample return mass to Earth via Orion might require mission-by-mission decisions on storage within Orion and possible considerations...
16 December 2020
Hayabusa2 delivers first-ever gas sample from an asteroid
... looks brown, but our team says “black”! The sample return is a great success!” Said the Hayabusa2 team via Twitter...space rock, JAXA can now also claim to have the world's first sample return of a material in the gas state from deep space. So far,...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...the asteroid both remotely and on the surface, and to collect a sample to return to Earth. It is science that might hold the key to how...Once above our planet, the spacecraft will release the sample return capsule, which is equipped with a heat shield ...
22 December 2021
Scientists present the first-ever analysis of samples retrieved from Ryugu
... of meteoritic material. Despite a thorough search, Yada and colleagues could find no trace of submillimetre CAIs or chondrules in the samples returned from Ryugu - neither could Pilorget and team. This, they say, when coupled with the porosity...
