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Europe's Hera asteroid probe heads for Mars after engine burn
The Hera mission is headed for the Didymos binary asteroid system. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) smashed ...
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Mars Alert: Why Three Spacecraft Must Leave For The Red Planet Within Weeks Or Miss Their Chance
Mars 2020 is targeted for launch in July/August 2020 aboard an Atlas V-541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The first planetary science mission ...
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Planetary defense mission Hera blasts off toward Mars
Hera will perform a swingby of Mars in March 2025 as a way of gathering extra momentum on its way to the Didymos binary asteroid system. The spacecraft will fly within the orbits of both Martian ...
NASA spacecraft found ‘dead’ robot on Mars surface: what is it and to which mission does it belong?
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been looking down at the surface of the Red Planet for almost 20 years. It is looking for ...
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Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit
Can you guide a spacecraft into orbit around Mars and cook for eight people morning and night? Yes, if you get up at 5am, and your name is BP Dakshayani. Here the former head of flight dynamics ...
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Pew Pew: Space Lasers Could Change How We Talk to Mars and Beyond
In July, DSOC sent a laser signal from Earth to the Psyche spacecraft from a distance of about 290 million miles (460 million kilometers), which is the same distance between Earth and Mars when ...
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The future of spaceflight—from orbital vacations to humans on Mars
A half-dozen space agencies have designed spacecraft that shed the shackles of Earth’s gravity and traveled to the moon or Mars. And if all goes well, the United Arab Emirates will join that ...