MMX (Mars Moons Explorer) will head to Phobos and Deimos in September. The spacecraft carries a sample-return mission, which will collect a piece of Phobos. JAXA has proven its ability to carry out asteroid rendezvous missions with Hayabusa 1 and 2, and a first-ever dedicated mission to ...
"All great missions come with challenges: Airbus had to develop sophisticated thermal control solutions and even 'special' solar arrays, capable of tilting 75 degrees away from the Sun to limit the temperature. Now its challenge is to have a successful launch and then to complete the journey sa...
So far only two NASA missions have visited Mercury—Mariner 10 in the 1970s and Messenger, which orbited the planet from 2011 until it ran out of fuel in April 2015. BepiColombo will study the peculiarities of Mercury's internal structure and magnetic field generation, and how it interacts w...
Mercuryis perhaps the most understudied of the rocky worlds in the solar system. Hot and harder to reach than even Saturn, it hasn't enjoyed the level of exploration that other planets around the sun have received. Only two previous spacecraft, bothNASAmissions, have flown to the Swift Plane...
Past missions to Mercury Additional resources Out of the four rocky planets of the inner solar system, Mercury is the one least explored. Hot and more difficult for an orbiter to reach than Saturn, the planet long eluded scientists. BepiColombo, a joint mission of the European Space Agency...
On Things to Come ISSI-BJ Online Seminars Started in September 2020, the "On Things to Come" seminar series aims to introduce to the scientific community ongoing as well as new space missions organized by different space agencies, and it allows the audience to interact with experts and ask qu...
As an aerospace engineer,I'm excitedfor 2025, when space agencies worldwide are gearing up for even more ambitious goals. Here's a look at the most exciting missions planned for the coming year, which will expand humanity's horizons even further, from the moon and Mars to asteroids and be...
during the mission, NASA persevered and got a lot of science out of the struggling spacecraft. Mariner 10 thus became a demonstration of how to adapt missions on the fly, which is an important skill NASA still uses today. The plucky spacecraft even has apostage stampto commemorate the ...
BepiColombo Science Investigations During Cruise and Flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury Article Open access 11 February 2021 Space Missions for Exoplanet Research: Overview and Introduction Chapter © 2018 1 Introduction In the early morning hours of July 20, 2020 (July 19, UTC), th...
Our extensive experience in complex scientific exploration missions – such the first European probes to Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Mercury and the first spacecraft to land on a comet with Rosetta – is a great asset, and we are making major contributions to humanity’s quests to set foot on ...