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Could you briefly describe your job? I work in the space exploration and science field at Thales Alenia Space in Italy, based in Turin. As the name suggests, we design, develop, manufacture, integrate, test and operate space systems for scientific applications, human and robotic exploration, and space transportation.     Chances are you’ve heard of us if you have read about the ExoMars mission, for which we are prime contractor. Or maybe you have seen pictures of the Cupola and other module...

NASA Awards Mars Ascent Propulsion System Contract for Sample Return Mars Ascent Vehicle Launching with Samples: This illustration shows a concept of how the NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle, carrying tubes containing rock and soil samples, could be launched from the surface of Mars in one step of the Mars sample return mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption › The award moves NASA and ESA a step closer to realizing Mars Sample Return, an ambitious planetary exploration program that...

NASA's Perseverance Rover is equipped with the most advanced science lab ever brought to another planet, so it will be able to thoroughly analyze any rocks and soil that it digs up. However, NASA also has something even more ambitious in mind: bringing Perseverance samples back to Earth via the Mars Sample Return mission. Now, the space agency has taken a big step in that mission, awarding the Mars Ascent Propulsion System (MAPS) contract to...

Meet the Spartan who helped NASA go to Mars (again) As a high school student, Terry Himes dreamed of exploring space. Today, the Spartan who graduated in 1975 from Michigan State University’s College of Engineering is living his dream.     “Just today, I was building the relay commands for Mars 2020, but also Curiosity and InSight,” says Himes, a spacecraft and software engineer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.   NASA’s Perseverance rover arrived on Mars, landing safely on Feb...

NASA’s Tubes Withstand the Trip to Mars With the successful touchdown of the Perseverance Rover on Mars in February, we look at the tubes powering data collection. Feb 26th, 2021 A technician working on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission takes a sample from the surface of sample tube 241 to test for contamination. Each sample tube has its own unique serial number (seen on the gold-colored portion of the tube). The image was taken in a clean room facility at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laborato...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover landed on the red planet recently. It was launched on 30 July 2020 under Mission Mars 2020, exploiting the closest approach phenomenon. But how many countries have launched a mission to Mars? How many of them have been successful? Here are all the details. The geographical & other conditions in Mars are in proximity with that of Earth which has resulted in speculation that there is a possibility of life on the red planet. Mars is a little more than half the Eart...

The Women Who Made the Arrival on Mars a Reality Published: - Feb 25, 2021 Involved in every step of the planning, construction, and arrival of Perseverance to Mars, several women boldly charted a path for the future of girls and humanity. These are some of the many women who have been crucial in this great step in history. The Woman Post | Laura Valentina Cortés Sierra Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio tag. NASAs Perseverance Mars Rover landed on T...

Leonardo engineering robotic arms for future Mars rovers February 25, 2021 NASA’s Perseverance rover reached Mars on February 18, 2021, for the Mars Sample Return program. After what NASA described as ‘seven minutes of terror’, the module successfully descended into Martian atmosphere where it was deposited into a dried, former lake bed. The rover will scour Mars in the coming years to collect soil samples that will be carried back to Earth, for study and analysis for cl...

February 24th, 2021, 3:42PM / BY Mariah Baker Artist’s rendition of Ingenuity flying on Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The landing of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover (“Percy”) on Thursday, February 18, 2021 marked the start of NASA’s ninth surface mission on the Red Planet. Percy touched down in Jezero crater on Mars, where she will set off exploring new and uncharted terrains in search of ancient signs of life. Nearly 60 years have passed since the first spacecraft were...

Top 10 Tremendous Features Of The Mars Perseverance Rover The Perseverance has landed. On February 18, NASA’s most ambitious rover to date competed a nearly seven-month journey from Earth to begin a years-long exploration of the red planet. Weighing a metric ton and costing more than $2 billion to design, construct and validate, Perseverance has one overarching goal: finding unprecedented evidence of ancient life on a planet other than ours. Much like the moon landing more then half a centur...