Stories about missions throughout solar system and beyond.
“Will we actually land on an asteroid and get these beautiful samples? Probably f—— not,” Gialich told Payload. “But do we hope to change the name of the game for access to deep space, and show people that the price point we’re doing this at is doable? I hope.”
ESA has tapped Airbus to build a landing platform for Europe’s beleaguered ExoMars rover as the delayed mission hopes to reach Mars in 2030.
Multiple civil space agencies have made recent trips to asteroids. Karman+ is betting it can achieve similar results with drastically less capital.
Space CEOs outlined how their tech would help the US explore Mars amid the Trump administration’s focus on the Red Planet during remarks at the Commercial Space Conference on Wednesday in DC.
AstroForge announced which asteroid it’s targeting on its maiden fly-by mission—and the ride it’ll take for future prospecting flights to deep space.
After more than a year of review, there’s no concrete plan to retrieve scientific samples from Mars.
The license was “our last gate to fly.”
“We sell minutes on the network, something like a million minutes a year, to NASA.”
JPL launched a Tiger Team to assess if the $5B spacecraft could survive its Jovian voyage as-is.
“We’re going to mine asteroids or go f*****g bankrupt.”
NASA and CSA joined together to address this problem with The Deep Space Food Challenge, a competition that’s tapped industry to put forward novel ideas and new technologies to keep astronauts fed on extended journeys to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Ascending Node Technologies (ANT) launched its Spaceline 3D mission visualization software to help mission operators plan and optimize their flight paths.
