Blue Origin has revealed its concept for a Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO), entering a burgeoning field alongside Rocket Lab and Lockheed Martin as companies vie to enhance communications infrastructure for future Mars missions. The announcement highlights a proactive push by private aerospace firms, even as SpaceX remains notably absent from the fray, opting instead for its own ambitious Martian connectivity plans.
Scientists have calculated the rate of meteoroid impacts on Mars using seismic measurements NASA’s retired…
On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, comprised of the new Curiosity rover, officially…
Using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a group of NASA-funded researchers has discovered…
After successfully landing on Mars on August 6, 2012 (UTC), Curiosity continues to unlock the…
After the successful launch of three new Mars missions in the summer of 2020, Mars…
On July 24, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter successfully completed its 10th and most daring…
Throughout the southern Martian hemisphere’s spring and summer seasons, a large, expansive cloud emerges daily…
For the first time ever, non-rocket powered flight has been achieved on a body other…
After years of hard work and labor, NASA succeeded in the most complex landing ever…
It seems like an obvious thing to say. When looking to establish a human colony…
NASA’s InSight lander has performed a perfect and critical entry and descent through the Martian…
NASA’s InSight mission began a six-month journey to Mars on Saturday with liftoff aboard United…
For solar and space weather science, 2017 was a major boon to understanding how Coronal…
While the final result was not as intended, data from the European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli…
After a seven month cruise between worlds, ESA and Russia’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and…
As part of its increasing dedication and ramp up of activities at the red planet,…
Europe’s ExoMars orbiter has begun its journey to the Red Planet on Monday with its…
With the abundance of discoveries in planetary science this year, none was truly more important…
It was a search hundreds of years old. On Monday, NASA announced what so many…
