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Faulty instrument delays Mars lander launch
Posted in Science on 23rd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
NASA's Insight lander will miss its scheduled launch window in March 2016 due to a continuing fault with one of its primary scientific instruments.
UCLs ExoMars PanCam kit one step closer to Mars
Posted in Science on 5th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
The ExoMars rover is due to launch for Mars in 2018, with arrival in 2019.
A drill to tunnel miles below the surface of Mars
Posted in Hardware on 3rd Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
In the California desert, Honeybee robotics is testing a drill that could search for life on other worlds.
MIT study says that there is little risk of Earth's goemagnetic field flipping soon
Posted in Science on 1st Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller
Previous research had predicted an imminent flip that would leave life on Earth temporarily un-shielded from space radiation.
Europe's ExoMars missions are go; finally
Posted in Science on 27th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
The initial venture will involve a satellite going to Mars to study the atmosphere. The orbiter will drop a probe on to the surface to test technologies needed to land a rover.