Drawing on its experience in interplanetary missions, Airbus is developing a rover and a satellite to increase our knowledge of Mars.
While there have been some major achievements in space exploration this year, includingChinareturning farside lunar samples to Earth for the first time, arecord-breaking student-made rocketand thefirst-ever private spacewalk, there have also been some major blunders from NASA, SpaceX and other o...
Mars mission renews wonder of space explorationAlfred Lubrano, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Currently writing as Space.com's Space Insider Columnist among his other projects, Leonard has authored numerous books on space exploration, Mars missions and more, with his latest being "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published in 2019 by National Geographic. He also wrote "Mars: Our Future...
Coming up in the 2020s and 2030s, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning asample-return missionfrom Mars' moonPhobos, and NASA has teamed up with the ESA on asample-return mission from Marsitself. Early Mars missions ...
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Humans have launched 46 Mars exploration missions sinc e October 1960, but only 19 of them have been successful, according to Chin a Daily.It's China's first spacecraft to Mars, and th e missions ar e rather ambitious. Tianwen-l aims to achiev e "orbiting,landing, and roving(环绕,...
Chin a will launch two Mars missions in 2020 and 2028 as four deep space exploration missions are planned before 2030.In December this year, China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe (空间探测器) will land in Aitken Basin of the lunar south pole region on the far side of the moon, which is a ...
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space companies on various projects, such as space probes like Rosetta, Venus Express, and Mars Express, and orbital telescopes like COROT and XMM-Newton. With NASA, they have worked on missions like PARASOL (the Earth-observing research satellite) and CALIPSO (the environment and weather ...