Elon Musk has a plan to ensure the long-term survival of humanity – we must become a interplanetary species in a space fairing civilization. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO was a guest on the podcast ‘Sway,’ where he revealed details of the Starship rocket set to take people to Mars and a few bits of … Read more
NASA‘s Perseverance mission launched today and will collect at least 20 rock samples from the surface of Mars. But engineers have already set their eyes on how these samples, which will be stored on the Martian surface, will be returned to Earth. The European Space Agency has revealed that Airbus-France will be in charge of building … Read more
Blast off for UAE’s mission to Mars as Emirates become first Arab nation to launch an interplanetary expedition The unmanned spacecraft launched from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center Dubai’s Burj Khalifa lit up just before the launch with a 10-second countdown It is expected to reach Mars’s orbit by February 2021, marking the 50th anniversary of … Read more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch its first ever mission to to Mars next month. Called Amal, meaning ‘hope’, the mission will take off from the remote Japanese island of Tanegashima on July 15. It will be seven months before it reaches Mars and starts orbiting the planet. The 3,000lb (1,350kg) craft will complete … Read more