This paper will provide an overview of an overall Mars Sample Return campaign architecture, and the current concepts and options for the architecture and design of a Mars Sample Retrieval Lander (called Sample Retrieval Lander, SRL). The overall SRL mission concept and key mission objectives will ...
Overview of the NASA/European Space Agency Mars Sample Return mission as now foreseen. (Image credit: ESA/K. Oldenburg) Still-to-do checklist The robotic Mars Sample Return project, if successful, is likely to fuel follow-on puzzlement. No doubt there will be a still-to-do checklist of ...
The work presented here provides an overview of the planetary protection strategy of the third flight mission, the ESA-led Earth Return Orbiter, which hosts the NASA-provided Capture, Containment, and Return System. The orbiter would detect and capture the container with up to 30 sealed tubes ...
Notice that not even SpaceX is suggesting that a manned return will be faster and cheaper. If SpaceX were to do this, they would have to send a Starship on a one-way mission. Its primary cargo would be the MAV (Mars Accent Vehicle) and Starship would only replace the "sky cra...
The U.S. may not beat China at retrieving Martian rocks first, according to an independent review board’s conclusion. But the U.S. can still lead with an exchange of samples here on Earth
Mars Sample Return is a mission to return Martian samples collected by the Mars Perseverance rover to Earth. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/MSFC TheMarsSample Return mission will retrieve material collected by Perseverance, bringing it to Earth for advanced analysis and exploration of life on ...
The Earth Return Orbiter will use electric propulsion to maneuver into and out of orbit around Mars, collecting samples that will be returned to Earth. (credit: Airbus) Mars Ice Mapper Mars Sample Return is the major robotic Mars mission of the coming decade for NASA, but it is not the on...
While the old mission design was elaborate, there was nothing gratuitous about it. The sample tubes are on the Martian surface, so we have to go there, pick them up, get the samples back into orbit, and then return them to Earth unscathed. So, now NASA has to devise a cheaper, faster...
NASA announced Monday it is revising plans for itsMars Sample Return (MSR) missiondue to the estimated cost and long wait time for samples to return to Earth. The mission's goal was to collect samples of rock, soil, atmosphere and loose surface material and deliver them back...
NASA has released a cinematic animation showing some of the key moments from the upcoming Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission.