May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... efficient ways we suspect we can enhance our understanding of any world we intend to visit is to return small samples to Earth. Having access to samples will allow scientists in the most advanced Earth-based laboratories to perform the full range...
12 November 2020
ESA and NASA to partner on Mars sample return mission
.... “The independent review has given strong support to Mars Sample Return, which is great news for the campaign,” says ESA...around Mars, ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter will rendezvous with the samples over 70 million km from Earth in orbit around Mars and...
23 November 2020
China's lunar sample return mission to launch tonight
... on. If successful, Chang'e 5 will be the first lunar sample-return mission in more than four decades – the last undertaking...this time around is likely to lay the foundations for a Mars sample return later in the decade or even a crewed lunar mission....
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
... designed by Airbus’s team in Stevenage, UK, will not bring the samples direct back to Earth itself, but will collect the material left by... Gyimah. “This remarkable new project, which will see samples brought back from Mars to Earth for the first time...
04 August 2016
Experts to Discuss Mars Sample Return at IAC 2016
... discoveries but for potential Mars missions as well. The International Astronautical Congress-2016 plenary on the Mars Sample Return mission will be moderated by Ms. Cheryl Reed, Program Manager, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... a doctorate in Planetary Science. Her research on cosmochemistry of meteorites led her to work on more pristine extra-terrestrial samples from sample return missions. She is currently a full-time post-doctoral researcher for the EURO-CARES project...
