These precious cores represent the results of past Mars orbiter and lander missions ... China now has credible plans for a Mars Sample Return mission called Tianwen-3. The Chinese Space Agency ...

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...

The Trace Gas Orbiter’s CaSSIS color camera ... and NASA and ESA are hoping to use a complex series of missions under the Mars Sample Return program to return them to Earth by the early 2030s.

Then in September 1999, a probe named Mars Climate Orbiter suffered a navigation ... challenges and important to JPL than Mars Sample Return. JPL flight systems engineer Joey Jefferson monitors ...

including the upcoming Mars Sample Return mission, which aims to bring Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth for in-depth study. Future Mars Exploration Plans NASA, in collaboration with ...

With the roughly 20-day wide launch window for the Mars 2020 mission rapidly ... already within the titanium sample tube in which it will remain until the sample return mission.

Mars sample return tube Instead, NASA and their international partners have been working to distribute the cost and complexity of the mission among several different vehicles. In fact, the first ...

What sort of strategy would you recommend to explore Mars? To me, sample return is the essence. Almost everybody involved agrees that what we need to do is get samples back from Mars. We have all ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic ...