SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave a talk to employees inside the Starfactory, laying out the future of the Starship Program in terms of hardware and reuse. He also revealed SpaceX’s ambitious plan to colonize Mars over the next decade.
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Mars has long been theorized to be a place where ancient microbial life once existed,…
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On May 30, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, currently exploring Gale Crater on the red planet,…
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Scientists have calculated the rate of meteoroid impacts on Mars using seismic measurements NASA’s retired…
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IDEFIX Phobos rover sent to Japan ahead of mission to Mars
by Adrian BeilThe Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is JAXA’s lead mission that plans to survey and…
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MarsOtherScience
Through international collaboration, scientists find cause of InSight’s most powerful Marsquake
An international team of scientists has found the cause of the largest Martian seismic event,…
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In December 2022, NASA lost contact with its Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and…
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On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, comprised of the new Curiosity rover, officially…
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While a lot of the focus when it comes to space travel beyond Earth orbit…
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Perseverance finds Mars river could have been ‘wilder,’ Mars Express takes new volcano images
May has been a big month for scientific discoveries on Mars, as NASA’s Perseverance rover…
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SpaceX has launched the Inmarsat I-6 F2 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit atop a Falcon…
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Arriving at Titan: How Dragonfly’s Entry, Descent, and Landing will differ from Mars missions
Since the focus on Martian exploration ramped up in the mid-1990s, most of the familiarity…
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ChineseInternationalUncrewed
China launches rideshare mission, develops new engine, and loses contact with Mars rover
by Adrian BeilIn what will probably be the last Chang Zheng launch before the Chinese new year,…
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On Dec. 21, 2022, NASA announced that its InSight lander mission on Mars had ended…
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After successfully landing on Mars on August 6, 2012 (UTC), Curiosity continues to unlock the…
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NASA, ESA unveil advanced architecture for Mars Sample Return
On July 27, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled new advanced mission architecture…
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Impulse Space has announced that the company will launch the first commercial payload to Mars…
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How Lockheed Martin, NASA will send a rocket to Mars to launch samples off the planet to a waiting European Orbiter
It’s an ask never before attempted: Launch samples off the surface of another planet for…
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Mars 2020 continues science in Jezero, Mars Odyssey solves Martian frost mystery
In late April, Perseverance and Ingenuity arrived at the edge of Jezero Crater’s ancient river…
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Led by Inspiration4 commander Jared Isaacman, the newly announced Polaris program aims to demonstrate multiple…