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.
SpaceX’s next mission as part of its Transporter small payload rideshare program, Transporter 14, launched…
2024 was another busy year for space science, with many new missions, successes, and discoveries…
NASA announced its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, had ended its mission after experiencing an anomaly during…
Since the focus on Martian exploration ramped up in the mid-1990s, most of the familiarity…
Dragonfly, NASA’s unique robotic exploration mission using a rotorcraft to fly a science laboratory around…
On Dec. 21, 2022, NASA announced that its InSight lander mission on Mars had ended…
After successfully landing on Mars on August 6, 2012 (UTC), Curiosity continues to unlock the…
On July 27, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled new advanced mission architecture…
Blue Origin’s New Shepard system for launching tourists and experiments on short, suborbital journeys into…
It’s an ask never before attempted: Launch samples off the surface of another planet for…
In late April, Perseverance and Ingenuity arrived at the edge of Jezero Crater’s ancient river…
60 years ago, on May 8, 1962, Atlas-LV3C Centaur-A – designated Atlas Centaur-1 (AC-1) –…
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been scouring Gale Crater and the slopes of Mount Sharp…
After the successful launch of three new Mars missions in the summer of 2020, Mars…
The year 2021 has been a historic one for China’s space program. The country achieved…
Following an unsuccessful sample collection attempt in early August, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has successfully…
Since Mariner 9 entered orbit around Mars on November 14, 1971, NASA has been continuously…
While organic compounds have been confirmed on the Martian surface and near-surface areas since 2018,…
China has become only the second nation to successfully land a spacecraft on Mars on…
