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The European Space Conference in Brussels takes place this week, so Euronews spoke to European Space Agency Director General Jan Wörner about the challenges the sector faces in 2021. Brexit troubles Europes space sector Brexit is a headache for the European space sector, as the UK is a permanent and committed member of ESA, but is now outside the EU. Leaving the EU has made everything more complicated: under the terms of the agreement signed in December 2020 the UK can continue to be part of t...

NASA approves Mars sample return project for next big phase NASA and the European Space Agency hope to bring a small piece of Mars back to Earth, a project that just got a big approval to enter Phase A. NASA announced the decision today, stating that the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will ‘mature critical technologies’ needed for the effort, among other things. Bringing samples back to Earth from elsewhere in our Solar System has become an increasingly common activity — China, for exam...

More about the hiydroology and the seasons on titan. >> so youre looking at who may have taken lake-front property on titan? >> if theyre there, well find them. >> we send lots of robots to mars. were looking at sending humans to mars. but nothing comes back from mars. there is a mission that may be planned to bring something back from mars? >> one of the things that weve been talking about for quite a few years and were getting more and more serious is sample return. the key to that, of course,...