by Matt Wilson | Feb 26, 2020 | exploration, JAXA, Satellites, Seradata News
On 19 February 2020, JAXA, alongside the Japanese government approved the development of the MMX mission. MMX – Martian Moon eXploration – is a sample return mission targeting the Martian moon, Phobos. The mission has a planned launch date of September... 
by David Todd | Nov 27, 2018 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
At 2101 GMT on 27 November 2018, via UHF signals converted to X-band signals on two released Mars Cube One (MarCO A and B) data relay spacecraft and via the Deep Space Network on Earth, it was confirmed to NASA engineers, at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, that... 
by David Todd | May 14, 2018 | exploration, NASA, Seradata News, Technology
NASA has announced that it is to send its “Mars Helicopter”, a small autonomous rotorcraft, to Mars with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020. Started in August 2013 as a technology development project at NASA’s... 
by David Todd | Dec 5, 2017 | exploration, Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
While Elon Musk has stated that his primary loves are his sons – he does have other loves. Apart from various beautiful women – it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a billion dollars, must be in want of a wife (apologies to... 
by David Todd | Aug 21, 2017 | China, ESA, India, NASA, Russia, Seradata News
Every year Seradata publishes its analysis of how well different nations are doing in the “great space race”. In this, we limit our analysis to manned spaceflight and to its two main exploratory targets: a return to the Moon and setting foot on Mars. On the basis of...
