Space exploration achieved several notable firsts in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic, including commercial human spaceflight and returning samples of an asteroid to Earth.…
Browsing: Mars
NASA is planning to land a crew on the Moon by 2024, and then onward to Mars, possibly in the 2030s. One…
Oracle beats Microsoft in TikTok bid to acquire it in the US Because 2020 wasn’t insane enough, US companies have been bidding to take over the US operations of the Chinese short-format video app TikTok. Just because the governmental bodies don’t trust the country where the app originated. On the list of possible buyers were
This year, NASA is taking the next giant leap in the search for signs of life beyond Earth. On July…
On July 14, a new Mars-bound spacecraft launched from Japan. While several Mars missions are planned to launch over the next…
A sustainable space program requires reliable, fully autonomous robotic systems both for maintaining the existing space infrastructures and for building new ones beyond low Earth orbits. Autonomy is particularly essential to near-future space robotic systems as they must operate in harsh and partially understood environments.