Foundations of mission plan laid In 2011 Bas Lansdorp and Arno Wielders lay the foundation of the Mars One mission plan. Discussion meetings are held with potential suppliers of aerospace components in USA, Canada, Italy and United Kingdom. Mission architecture, budgets and timelines are solidified...
The demonstration mission will be the first Lander of Mars One on Mars. In the unlikely event of any problems with the deployment of the Lander on the first mission, the only risk will be to the payload, and to the Lander itself. Any lesson learned from the demonstration mission will be...
@jaime_fe_roTBH I am adjusting down, he is so consistently optimistic with his timelines that saying they will have it by the last possible transfer window for this question to resolve positive does not give me much confidance that it'll happen. ...
SpaceX plans to start launching uncrewed Mars missions with its Starship megarocket in 2026 and crewed flights to the Red Planet two years after that, Elon Musk said.
has said its SLS rocket will slash several years off the transit time for scientific spacecraft to Europa and other moons of interest in the outer solar system. Showing a picture of the ITS on Europa, Musk said Tuesday, “It would be really great to do a mission to Europa, particul...
The billionaire told attendees that “we are building the first Mars, or interplanetary ship, and I think we’ll be able to do short trips, flights by first half of next year.” Mindful of elevating expectations too high, Musk hedged a bit. “Although sometimes, my timeline...
Each Strategic Roadmap is to set broad scientific and exploration objectives and priorities for its particular subject, decide the sets of missions to satisfy these, identify important decision points at which alternative choices must be made, estimate timelines and risk, and identify the needs for ...
The country’s space agency, Roscosmos, announced plans in December 2020 to develop, build, and launch in 2030 a 500 kW nuclear reactor-powered transport and energy module called “Zeus” on a 50-month mission into deep space to slingshot around the moon to visit Venus and later Jupiter [...
"These engineers have actually been building these systems, and each team we talked to is leading in the world. Our current mission design is the result of our own studies and their feedback, and we are very confident that our budgets, timelines and requirements are feasible." Lansdorp said...
“There is not enough money in the NASA budget now or in the future to fly a NASA-only mission,” Collins added. “A public-private partnership with a company like SpaceX, and others, with NASA, is looking like the ideal model, especially if we want to beat ...