October 2020
Connecting the global space community
... fascinating neighbour, and the Mars2020 mission will collect material for a future Mars sample return mission. Meanwhile, JAXA’s Hayabusa mission will return samples from near-Earth asteroids (at the end of 2020), so next year we might have some...
16 January 2019
China unveils future space plans
...’e 5 at the end of this year. Chang’e 5 is a Moon-rock sample return mission whose goal is to land in the Mons Rumker region of Oceanus Procellarum, and return a 2 kilogram sample of lunar regolith, possibly from as deep as 2 metres. It is reported...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... making soil from asteroid material and a Titan sample return mission using in-situ propellants. These futuristic space ideas... NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland : Titan Sample Return Using In-situ Propellants. Marco Pavone, Stanford University...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... of the instruments on Rosetta. By the end of the mission it will be difficult to top it. The next step has to go towards a sample return mission because this will then allow the study of cometary material with all the fabulous machines...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
.... They would also allow materials testing and experimentation directly on site, without the need for costly sample return to Earth. Importantly, this reuse strategy would save considerable space and budget, usually dedicated to chemical containers...
21 February 2019
Hayabusa2 starts descent towards Ryugu
Hayabusa2, Japan’s audacious asteroid sample-return spacecraft, is getting ready to collect a chunk of... the onboard sampler horn. Hayabusa2 will hold onto any samples it manages to collect and return them to Earth in 2020 for further study. After the...
