We’ll soon be able to properly start asking the question: “Are we alone in the universe?” Nasa’s next major mission,…
Browsing: Mars
This month has been a busy one for Mars exploration. Several countries sent missions to the red planet in June last year,…
Three new spacecraft are due to arrive at Mars this month, ending their seven-month journey through space. The first, the…
Looking at its achievements over the past decade, nobody would doubt China is aiming to win the new space race. Not…
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.…
NASA is planning to land a crew on the Moon by 2024, and then onward to Mars, possibly in the 2030s. One…
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.