November 2017
Roving the red planet
...be missed, the fact that the two Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs), Spirit and Opportunity, and the Mars Science Laboratory rover, ... been a Participating Scientist on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission since 2002. He is also involved in several ...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... of panoramic cameras on the surface of Mars. The mission set the stage for the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity, Mars Phoenix, the Mars Science Laboratory and the upcoming Mars 2020 rovers...
18 April 2023
Spire launches customers’ Earth and debris monitoring satellites
... as possible. To develop solutions, we first need a better overview of the current situation in Earth orbit,” said Dr Gernot Grömer, Director of the Austrian Space Forum. Spire's Space Services arm, with a $39 billion total addressable market, allows...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
... a signal is far too low to continue recovery efforts," said John Callas, manager of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project at JPL. Opportunity landed in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars on Jan. 24, 2004, seven months after its...
