17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
... provide final anchoring of the boulder to the capture mechanism. Credit: NASA artist’s concept The Asteroid Redirect Mission is expected to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid in near-earth space. The spacecraft will retrieve a boulder of a few...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
... been previously demonstrated at the scale required by the Gateway,” says the report. “If additional modules are added, or mission requirements expand, the Gateway would face higher technology integration risk, especially for power, propulsion, and...
27 January 2021
Axiom Space unveils crew for first private ISS mission
... cradle,” say Axiom in a statement Tuesday. “And it all begins with this multinational crew. This groundbreaking mission.” As groundbreaking the mission might be, many have pointed out the apparent lack of diversity amongst the four selected crew...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... outer layers leaving the iron-nickel core. Artist’s concept depicting the spacecraft of NASA’s Psyche mission near the mission’s target, the metal asteroid Psyche, showing the five-panel solar arrays planned for the...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... known in military ethics Currently the main, most realistic and upcoming type of space missions are science missions. In a sense, scientific missions can be seen as a type of space activity to which we are inclined to assign a higher moral value...
16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
...and France’s space agency CNES under a mission known as Proxima. The mission name was chosen from over 1300 entries...how human spaceflight is close to people on Earth.” As with all missions, as much time as possible will be spent on science, however ...
