While the final result was not as intended, data from the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli lander, which failed to make a successful soft landing on the surface of Mars last week, will live on in the form of the ExoMars 2020 rover, which will use data from Schiaparelli to upgrade and enhance its landing technology for a successful arrival at Mars in four years’ time.
After a seven month cruise between worlds, ESA and Russia’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and…
Europe’s ExoMars orbiter has begun its journey to the Red Planet on Monday with its…
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, have announced their…
The Japanese asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 – launched on December 3, 2014 aboard an H-IIA…
NASA’s InSight mission began a six-month journey to Mars on Saturday with liftoff aboard United…
Throughout the inner solar system in 2016, NASA, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos, and ISRO built upon…
As part of its increasing dedication and ramp up of activities at the red planet,…
NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission has received a…
The next NASA rover to be sent to the surface of Mars has received twice…
NASA’s associate administrator for science, John Grunsfeld, has announced NASA’s forward path for robotic exploration…
The Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG) have added meat to the bones of a proposal…
The US space agency announced a reduced FY13 budget proposal on Monday, with planetary science…
The ministers from the 17 ESA Member States have decided to go ahead with the…