China has advanced the launch of its Tianwen 3 Mars sample-return mission to 2028. The new timeline, two years sooner than originally planned, suggests that China could bring Mars samples to Earth as soon as 2031. Speaking at the second International Deep Space Exploration Conference (also know...
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is grappling with escalating costs and a postponed timeline, prompting… Space Blast from the Past: Historic Wind Tunnel Tests NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle Rocket October 1, 2023 The Mars Ascent Vehicle team completed crucial wind tunnel tests at NASA’s facili...
"Our current status is that the Mars Sample Return Strategy Review team is delivering a final report to NASA's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate before the end of [2024]. NASA anticipates additional Mars Sample Return updates in the first quarter of 2025," said Karen ...
The overall SRL mission concept and key mission objectives will be described, including the mission's concept of operations and a notional timeline from launch to entry, through surface operations, to delivery of the samples to Mars orbit. The overall lander vehicle concept will be described, ...
This timeline may be adjusted to optimize delivery parameters for BPP and mission success. According to NASA and ESA requirements, the CCRS hardware and ERO must be disposed in an orbit that avoids Earth for at least 100 years; Earth avoidance is addressed by NASA only through the ERO-CCRS ...
Mars Sample Return has always been an expensive, high-risk, high-reward project. But now, with realization of the mission’s actual cost and expanding timeline, Congress must commit to fully supporting the effort or risk tanking the rest of NASA’s plane
NASA is both tasking people within the agency to come up with a new plan and inviting contributions from private industry that could help make the mission a reality. As well as finding a simpler and cheaper way to do things, the agency is also hoping that the mission timeline can be broug...
Lori Glaze, the director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, laid out the timeline of the Mars Sample Return campaign during Thursday morning's briefing. "The Earth Return Orbiter, that will carry the samples back to Earth, is...
Lori Glaze, the director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, laid out the timeline of the Mars Sample Return campaign during Thursday morning's briefing. "The Earth Return Orbiter, that will carry the samples back to Earth, is expected to launch in 2027 ...
NASA is both tasking people within the agency to come up with a new plan and inviting contributions from private industry that could help make the mission a reality. As well as finding a simpler and cheaper way to do things, the agency is also hoping that the mission timeline can be broug...