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18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
...ESA and Switzerland, with important contribution from 10 other ESA Member States. ESA’s first mission dedicated to extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, it will investigate known planets beyond our Solar System and provide key insight into the... they are made of and how they formed. Cheops will also pave the way for our future exoplanet missions, from the international James Webb Telescope to ESA’s very own Plato and Ariel satellites, keeping European...
04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
... countdown begins for the space agency's next mission; the launch of its martian rover known as InSight. Just a few weeks ago, NASA sent their Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into orbit with the aid ...InSight. InSight, which stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will be NASA’s first mission to peer deep within the interior of Mars with a suite of instruments designed to give the ...
17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
... visit the boulder for research purposes. The mission will also help gain invaluable experience for future manned Mars missions. According to Michele Gates, ARM program manager at NASA, “With KDP-B under our belt, ARM... can now move forward to define partnerships and opportunities for long-term engagement.” NASA will ...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... Jupiter and rogue, free-floating planets. Its coronagraph instrument will pioneer technology for imaging exoplanets that will enable future missions to image Earth-like planets and search for signs of life. The past quarter century... planet is likely to depend on the planets in Jupiter-like orbits in the same system (the upcoming NASA TESS and ESA PLATO missions will discover planets with the transit method, but they focus on nearby systems for...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
...module that could host as many as seven (7) crewmembers, including astronauts and spaceflight participants.” NASA’s approach to future exploration and science programmes is to de-orbit the ISS and replace this outmoded facility with ‘... astronauts (each paying $155 million) travelled on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the ISS for a 17-day mission. As a start-up, Axiom Space has established its credibility in a short period of time. Northrop Grumman’s...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... a reliable, re-useable and inexpensive transportation system to get humans ‘up there’. Computer generated rendering of a future base on the Moon. Energy, as in unlimited solar energy from space, represents another huge economic opportunity...and income. This artist’s view of future Moon exploration (bearing more than a passing similarity to Apollo) was released by Boeing in April as a concept supporting NASA’s Deep Space Gateway. Basically, this ...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... to deliver jobs and growth ESA’s 2020 Asteroid Impact Mission will demonstrate a host of enabling technologies for future deep space missions, including advanced onboard autonomy, laser communications, inter-satellite links... and low-gravity operations, while exploring the Didymos binary asteroid system and monitoring the impact of NASA...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... the imposed timescales for the country’s highly publicised Artemis 2024 mission. Bowersox has been reported as telling a Congressional subcommittee this week that NASA is doing its best to meet the deadline set by the... order to achieve "that aggressive goal”. "What’s important is that we launch when we’re ready, that we have a successful mission when it launches, and I’m not going to sit here and tell you that just arbitrarily we’re going to make...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
Early Wednesday morning, weather permitting, NASA will launch DART, the world’s first mission to intentionally crash into an asteroid to test whether the impact is enough to shift its orbit; a scenario that could be ... impactor computer models, giving insight into how we could deflect potentially dangerous near-Earth objects in the future.” Researchers will get to see the asteroid system up close using images returned from DART’s only onboard...
