Washington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 - After years of design tweaks and dozens of flight tests, engineers are confident the Ingenuity helicopter is ready to make history with the first flight by a powered aircraft on another planet.
Washington (AFP) July 27, 2020 - NASA on Monday gave its latest Mars rover Perseverance the all clear to launch later this week on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 - With Perseverance, its most complex Mars rover to date, NASA is opening a new chapter in the search for traces of ancient life on Mars. The launch of the new rover is scheduled to take place on 30 J
Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 - A Mars landing mission must overcome a wide variety of difficulties and obstacles before it can fly through the Martian atmosphere and land on the planet's surface, experts said. The mission m
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 - Imagine fulfilling your life's ambition to explore a previously uncharted dried lakebed and the prehistoric river deltas that once emptied into it, carrying clay and other rich alluvial debris - and
Wenchang, China (AFP) July 23, 2020 - China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space.
Paris (ESA) Jul 23, 2020 - As Mars exploration prepares for a rebirth, a European rover tunes up its gear for the challenges ahead. Tomorrow, 23 July, ESA and dozens of industrial partners will assess the readiness of t
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 - If you could stand on the surface of Mars, what would you hear? While 8 missions have returned stunning views from the surface of the Red Planet, none have returned any sound. That's about to
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 - During an event with the Space Foundation, I was excited to be part of a discussion on how our upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance launch and the Artemis program are critical to opening the door to smar
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 - At 2:58 p.m. PDT [21:58 UTC] on Sunday, July 19, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched an interplanetary probe - the first by any country in the Arab world - thanks, in part, to scien
Dubai (AFP) July 20, 2020 - The first Arab space mission to Mars blasted off from Japan on Monday on a mission to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet.
Tokyo (AFP) July 20, 2020 - The first Arab space mission to Mars, an unmanned probe dubbed Hope, blasted off from Japan on Monday, in a bid to reveal more about the atmosphere of the Red Planet.
Dubai (AFP) July 19, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates celebrated in the early hours of Monday morning the launch of its Hope probe to Mars, the first interplanetary mission by an Arab nation.
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 17, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates' historic science mission to Mars now is scheduled for launch from Japan on Sunday.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 - The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, is expected to lift off in July (exact launch date depends on weather conditions) on an H-IIA rocket fro
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 15, 2020 - Weather at the launch site in Japan has delayed Thursday's historic launch of a United Arab Emirates space mission to Mars. It was the second such delay in a week.
