Morning Overview on MSN

SpaceX wants Tesla’s robot on Mars before anyone else

SpaceX is quietly reshaping its Mars strategy around a new kind of astronaut: a Tesla-built humanoid that can work where ...
SpaceNews

NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle Continues Progress Toward Mars Sample Return

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 ...
NextBigFuture

SpaceX Mars Fleet Operations With Thousands of Starships

Elon discussed SpaceX plans to send a fleet of 1000-1200 Starships every two years to Mars. SpaceX Mars fleet operations would have huge challenges. The plan is to launch 1.5 million tons to orbit ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Perseverance may soon set a Mars rover mileage record

Mars is quietly turning into a long-distance proving ground, and the vehicle leading the pack is not a dune buggy but a ...
Nature

Mars Entry Vehicle Aerothermodynamics

Mars entry vehicle aerothermodynamics encapsulates the study of fluid dynamic and thermal phenomena encountered when a spacecraft penetrates the thin, predominantly CO₂ atmosphere of Mars. This field ...
SpaceNews

Designing The Aerodynamic Configuration For China’s Mars Ascent Vehicles

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 ...
SpaceRef

Historic Wind Tunnel Facility Testing NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle Rocket

A scale model of the Mars Ascent Vehicle is loaded by Wind Tunnel Test Engineer Sam Schmitz into the trisonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center for testing. The 14-by-14-inch tunnel ...
Phys.org

Mars helicopter Ingenuity has ended its mission, paving the way for more flying vehicles on other planets, moons

It is difficult to emphasize 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 ...
Flightglobal

SpaceDev joins Boeing team for Mars vehicle bid

SpaceDev has joined up with the Boeing team working on the Mars Ascent Vehicle Concept Study for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Boeing, Lockheed Martin and TRW each received $300,000 ...
SpaceRef

NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle Continues Progress Toward Mars Sample Return

A development motor based on the second-stage solid rocket motor design for NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle undergoes testing March 29, 2023, at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Elkton, Maryland. The ...
The Conversation

Nasa’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has ended its mission – its success paves the way for more flying vehicles on other planets and moons

Kevin Olsen in an employee of the University of Oxford and receives funding from the UK Space Agency in support of Mars science. It is difficult to emphasise the significance of the milestone ...