Environmental Test Program for the Mars Exploration Rover Project [PDF]
Journal of the IEST, 2007 On June 10 and July 7, 2003, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched two spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for 6-month flights to the Red Planet, Mars. The two Mars Exploration Rover spacecraft landed safely on the planet on January 3 and 24, 2004.
Terry Fisher, Paul Van Velzer
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Vision-based navigation and guidance for small Mars UAVs
Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2014 Mars airplane is one of the candidate payloads of JAXA's next Mars exploration program. Airborne observation of Mars is expected to fill the “gap” between rovers, which provides a detailed observation but a limited area of coverage, and orbiters ...
Kentaro ARAI +3 more
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Aerospace, 2022 The Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group has identified measurements of the state and the variability of the Martian atmosphere as high priority investigations for the upcoming years. Balloon-borne instruments could bridge the gap in both temporal and
Lars Witte +6 more
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Future robotic exploration using honeybee search strategy: Example search for caves on Mars [PDF]
, 2011 Autonomous control has an increasing role in Earth and Space based applications. High level autonomy can greatly improve planetary exploration and is, in many cases, essential.
Kisdi, Áron +3 more
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Novel orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars enabled using low-thrust propulsion [PDF]
, 2014 Exploration of the inner planets of the Solar System is vital to significantly enhance the understanding of the formulation of the Earth and other planets.
Yen, Chen-wan +2 more
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Identifying and Interpreting Stratification in Sedimentary Rocks on Mars: Insight from Rover and Orbital Observations and Terrestrial Field Analogs [PDF]
, 2013 Sedimentary rocks on Mars provide insight into past aqueous and atmospheric processes, climate regimes, and potential habitability. The stratigraphic architecture of sedimentary rocks on Mars is similar to that of Earth, indicating that the processes ...
Edgar, Lauren Ashley
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Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World
Galaxies, 2021 A foundational model has been developed based on trends built from empirical data of space exploration and computing power through the first six plus decades of the Space Age, which projects the earliest possible launch dates for human-crewed missions ...
Jonathan H. Jiang +2 more
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Priorities and contradictions of George Herbert Walker Bush space policy
Американська історія і політика, 2017 The article analyzes the basic principles of US space policy which developed at the end of the 1980’s. The main focus is made on the detection and investigation of the priority of space component in the general political course of the republican ...
Liudmila Zhuravlova
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New Radiobiological Principles for the CNS Arising from Space Radiation Research
Life, 2023 Traditionally, the brain has been regarded as a relatively insensitive late-reacting tissue, with radiologically detectable damage not being reported at doses < 60 Gy.
Richard A. Britten, Charles L. Limoli
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Review of the Precise Orbit Determination for Chinese Lunar Exploration Projects
Earth and Space Science, 2021 China's lunar exploration program has developed and progressed for more than 13 years. Over this time, Precise Orbit Determination (POD) has guaranteed successful execution of the Chang’e missions, and is the basis for further scientific investigations ...
Shanhong Liu +6 more
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