Before landing, operations were planned to meet MOXIE's five success criteria. Run structure, constraints, and thorough definition and validation processes were defined. Before producing oxygen for the first time, several checkouts were planned to verify functionality of MOXIE's major subsystems. ...
Europe is working on the technologies required to launch a followup, high-precision landing by 2035. (Image credit: ESA/ATG medialab) The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to develop key technologies for a Mars surface lander by the mid-2030s. ESA is already planning to send the much-...
NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where should the first people on the Red Planet land? While there are lots of places on Mars scientists would like to visit, few would make practical landing site...
NASA has actually been planning for a Mars sample return mission since the early 1970s, even before the launch of the Viking spacecraft. Thegoals of a return missionwould include the search for life, not just life today, but past life, and even the chemical precursors of life. ...
US President Donald Trump announced in May that he planned to allocate additional $1.6 billion to NASA budget for Moon and Mars exploration programs. The sum will be requested from the Congress in addition to the $21 billion already promised to the US space agency in the 2020 fiscal year, ...
WASHINGTON — SpaceX no longer plans to have the next version of its Dragon spacecraft be capable of powered landings, a move that has implications for the company's long-term Mars plans. SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk, speaking at the International Space Station Research and Development Conf...
The design of the Mars landing complex in the project would rival the wildest imagination of science fiction writers. It would deliver to the Martian surface a "train" of five movable platforms. (52) One platform would carry the crew cabin with a manipulator and a device for drilling soil....
Recently tested Dragon 2's SuperDraco propulsive landing system at our McGregor, TX facility. Key for Mars landingpic.twitter.com/dV1nhKDMhr — SpaceX (@SpaceX)April 27, 2016 SpaceX is also planning to pilot what could be the first commercial lunar mission for next year. ...
The first option will rely on thesky crane method, used for the entry descent and landing of the two rovers still exploring Mars. The second will utilize new commercial capabilities and partners to deliver a “heavy-lift vehicle” lander, such as designs from companies fromSpaceXand Blue Origi...
NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where should the first people on the Red Planet land? While there are lots of places on Mars scientists would like to visit, few would make practical landing site...