The Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG) have added meat to the bones of a proposal that would result in the Space Launch System (SLS), Orion and a Mars spacecraft making up the key elements of a Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. With large support already communicated to lawmakers, the notional mission aims to utilize a secondary payload opportunity as early as SLS-5 in 2024.
A Russian Soyuz 2-1A launch vehicle has launched with the Metop-B satellite into orbit for…
International Space Station (ISS) Program managers at space agencies around the world are currently in…
Russia has conducted the final orbital launch of 2011, as their Soyuz-2-1a/Fregat deploying six Globalstar communications satellites…
It was an interesting year for NASA as the 2011 calendar brought about the retirement…
Just hours before the Soyuz TMA-03M successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), another…
Russia has successfully launched another Kosmos (Glonass-M) class satellite into orbit, following lift-off of their…
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory has begun its mission to the Red Planet Saturday, with a…
China has launched another navigation satellite, with the BeiDou-2 ‘Compass-IGSO-4’ lofted into orbit by a…
China is preparing its own Mars probe – Yinghuo-1 – that will hitch-hike a ride…
