For decades, plans to send humans to Mars have confronted a central engineering barrier: propellant mass. Rockets must carry the fuel needed not only to reach orbit, but also to depart Earth, cruise ...

The first rocket launch from the surface of another planet will be accomplished using two solid rocket motors. NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently reached some major milestones in support of the ...

The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) team recently completed wind tunnel testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in a facility that has been a critical part of NASA missions going all the way back to ...

According to the white paper, China’s Space Activities in 2016, the Mars sample return mission represents one of the main tasks to be implemented in China’s deep space exploration field in the next 10 ...

The Mars Ascent Vehicle will bring back samples from the Red Planet that are currently being collected by the Perseverance rover. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Perseverance rover has been diligently ...

NASA announced Friday that it will award contracts to seven companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, to study how to transport rock samples from Mars more cheaply back to Earth. The space agency ...

It is difficult to emphasise the significance of the milestone surpassed by Nasa’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity. The little (1.8kg) helicopter touched down with the Perseverance rover in 2021. On 25 ...

I assume this certification is for their use on future rovers. They're not going to pull Perseverance off to the side and park it if the actuators don't get a better certification. Click to expand ...

NASA’s plan to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2027 hinges on a spacecraft that remains stubbornly elusive in its reliability: SpaceX’s Starship. Towering at 403 feet, the largest rocket ...

NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently reached some major milestones in support of the Mars Sample Return program. The Mars Ascent Vehicle would be the first launch of a rocket from the surface of ...