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UK Company to Deliver Europe's First Mars Rover
A UK aerospace company is set to land the first European rover on the red planet, as it wins £150 million to complete the ...
Mars missions at risk: Could toxic dust threaten astronauts’ health and safety?
Martian dust contains hazardous substances like silica, perchlorates, nanophase iron oxides and toxic metals, which can cause ...
As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration
Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...
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The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
Even in the inner solar system, spacecraft such as lunar or Mars rovers need alternative power sources. As an astrophysicist ...
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Inside radioisotope generators, the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...
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Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Even in the inner solar system, spacecraft such as lunar or Mars rovers need alternative power sources. As an astrophysicist and professor of physics, I teach a senior-level aerospace engineering ...
SpaceX Starship Poised To Land First Humans On Mars, But Not Till 2031
Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...
SpaceNews18d
Bringing Mars to Earth: solving Mars Sample Return
Credit: NASA / USGS Today we stand on the threshold of one of the most exciting moments in the history of space exploration: bringing a piece of another planet in our solar system back home.
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Mars Gets Solar Eclipses Too
NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse on Mars. The Mastcam-Z camera recorded ... Oldest US Aircraft Carrier Fills Pacific Power Gap With China Here's the Average Social ...