15 July 2020
UAE Hope Mission postponed again due to bad weather
...virtual briefing, Omran Al Sharaf, project manager of Emirates Mars Mission, said the team were keeping a close on the weather but... at an unsuitable time,” Mr Al Sharaf said of the mission. The UAE's orbiter is one of three spacecraft bound for...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
...but reproduced during the experiment, indicating very low stress levels to the animals. In 2011 on China’s Shenzhou-8 mission, German scientists flew a type of algae known as Euglenoidea together with snails as part of the Science in Microgravity Box...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
... these three programs since 2012 in order to get its Exploration Mission - 1 (EM-1) off the ground, but despite mounting costs –... sufficiently. NASA did intend to follow-up the EM-1 mission with its EM-2 mission, however this is also likely to be put ...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
... Changing Development Program. STMD stands for Space Technology Mission Directorate and laser communication is expected to revolutionise future...beam knows where to transmit back to. For the Psyche mission, the laser beacon to DSOC will be sent from ...
30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... by Boeing Phantom Works, the reusable X-37B spaceplane is designed to launch on top of a conventional rocket; for this particular mission, the unpiloted OTV was lofted into space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 7 September, 2017. The spaceplane...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... is, it provides us a full understanding of the Martian atmosphere throughout the day," Sarah Al Amiri, science lead for the mission and the UAE's minister of state for advanced sciences, said during a news conference held on 9 July. "So it covers...
