08 October 2021
Images confirm "once and for all" Jezero crater was an ancient Martian lake
... biosignatures. And the boulders at the top will enable us to sample old pieces of crustal rocks. Both are main objectives for sampling and caching rocks before Mars Sample Return.” While it’s unknown if the lakes fluctuating water levels resulted...
15 June 2022
NASA counts on ESA cooperation for lunar exploration
... General Josef Aschbacher. “By contributing key European hardware and services to exciting programmes such as Artemis and Mars Sample Return we are building Europe’s autonomy while also being a reliable partner.” Nelson told a post-meeting press...
02 December 2014
Roscosmos plans deep space exploration
.... Plans include three uncrewed craft – Lunas 25, 26 and 27 – flying in 2023-25. Subsequently, Luna 28 and 29 would provide sample return missions after the previous lander and orbiter sequence occurs. Within a 50-year plan, Roscosmos is interested...
20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... already looking ahead to future spacefaring plans: a spaceport Virgin Galactic is eyeing, in-space agriculture with Nanoracks, a Mars sample-return mission no one’s ever heard of — if one UAE engineer gets her wish, that is — not to mention the 100...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
...-sized rover, which weighs just under 1,043 kilograms, will collect rock and soil samples for a possible return to Earth by future Mars sample return missions from its landing location in Jezero Crater. Jezero Crater is thought to contain fan...
25 June 2021
China announces plans to build a base on Mars starting in 2033
... four percent of the current cost claim China. With a string of recent successes including the Chang'e-5 lunar sample return mission, the deployment of Zhurong to the martian surface, and the deployment of astronauts to its new space station...
