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Northrop Grumman Provides Navigation System for NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Mission
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
The mission's four major scientific objectives include studying the planet's habitability, seeking biosignatures of past life, collecting core samples of the su...
Mars Perseverance rover 'go for launch,' says NASA
Jul 27, 2020 (AFP)
"The launch readiness review is complete, and we are indeed go for launch," administrator Jim Bridenstine said. "We are in extraordinary times right now with th...
After intense testing, Mars helicopter Ingenuity ready to fly
Jul 27, 2020 (UPI)
The mission is scheduled to launch from Florida on Thursday. If all goes as planned, the Mars helicopter will lift off from the Martian surface next April. But ...
Meet Marshall's Caleb Fassett, NASA Scientist Who Discovered Next Mars Rover Landing Site
Jul 24, 2020 (SPX)
Now imagine doing it roughly 40-50 million miles from home, in a windswept crater on Mars. For Caleb Fassett, a planetary scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Fli...
China Mars mission faces many obstacles
Jul 24, 2020 (XNA)
The mission must have a heavy-lift carrier rocket such as China's Long March 5 or the United States' Atlas V that is powerful enough to transport a large, heavy...
Perseverance microphones fulfill long campaign to hear sounds from Mars
Jul 23, 2020 (SPX)
That's about to change. NASA's Perseverance rover, which is days away from blasting off on a mission to search for signs of past life and collect samples for fu...
China launches Mars probe in space race with US
Jul 23, 2020 (AFP)
The two countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a short journey, with the US spacecraft due to lift off on Jul...
ESA tunes up Mars rover for challenges ahead
Jul 23, 2020 (ESA)
Tomorrow, 23 July, ESA and dozens of industrial partners will assess the readiness of the ExoMars robotic explorer, named Rosalind Franklin, for a trip to the R...
Emirates launches first Mars probe with help from UC Berkeley
Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)
The Emirates Mars Mission's Hope probe is scheduled to arrive at Mars in February 2021 and spend two years orbiting the "red planet," providing an unprecedented...
Human exploration of Mars is on the horizon
Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)
Throughout our history, people have always explored the world around them to discover the unknown, find new resources, expand their presence, and improve their ...
First Arab space mission to Mars launches from Japan
Jul 20, 2020 (AFP)
The Japanese rocket carrying the probe developed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan right on sched...
Emirati 'Hope' probe heads for Mars
Jul 20, 2020 (AFP)
The unmanned probe named Al-Amal -- Arabic for Hope -- took off after several weather delays, marking the next step in the United Arab Emirates' ambitious space...
UAE celebrates launch of first Arab interplanetary mission
Jul 19, 2020 (AFP)
The long-anticipated blast-off of the unmanned spacecraft at 6:58 am local time (2158 GMT Sunday) from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center was met with rapturous a...
UAE's historic Mars launch now planned for Sunday evening
Jul 17, 2020 (UPI)
Liftoff is planned at 5:58 p.m. EDT for the Japanese H-2A rocket carrying the Emirati orbiting satellite, named Hope, from the Tanegashima Space Center about 45...
Emirates Mars Mission to launch with ASU instrument
Jul 16, 2020 (SPX)
The mission is being carried out by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in collaboration with a number of research in...
UAE again delays Mars probe launch over weather
Jul 15, 2020 (AFP)
The probe was originally due to be launched from Japan on Wednesday but had been postponed until Friday for the same reason. "After extensive meetings, the @UAE...
Emirates Mars Mission delayed a second time by weather
Jul 15, 2020 (UPI)
The UAE government announced the delay early on Wednesday morning via Twitter, saying "a new launch date in July will be announced in the next 24 hours." The UA...
UAE plans to launch Mars probe Friday after weather delay
Jul 14, 2020 (AFP)
A rocket is due to blast off at 5:43 am local time (2043 GMT Thursday) carrying the unmanned spacecraft that is bound to orbit the Red Planet in the Arab world'...
NASA's Perseverance rover will scour Mars for signs of life
Jul 14, 2020 (AFP)
The interplanetary voyage will last six months. Should the SUV-sized vehicle touch down unscathed, it will start collecting and storing rock and soil samples, t...
NASA updates planetary protection policies for lunar and mars human missions
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
The directive's compliance will be ensured by the agency's Office of Planetary Protection within the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, which supports NASA...
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