A crescent of the northern hemisphere of Mars taken by Tianwen-1's medium-resolution camera in March 2021. Credit: CNSA/PEC ESPOO, Finland — China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission is entering ...

BEIJING -- China's mission to retrieve samples from Mars will advance to the flight model development phase within this year, Liu Jizhong, chief designer of the Tianwen 3 mission, said on Thursday.

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is starting to experience the kinds of cost overruns that have plagued previous high-profile space projects such as the Space Launch System and the James Webb Space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Mars Sample Return program has been effectively cancelled, meaning the best evidence of life on Mars could be trapped in ...

Moon boots and Mars boots: anyway you look at it there are a lot of NASA shoes still to drop. Among the agency's missions in perpetual déjà vu status is Mars Sample Return (MSR), an attempt to bring ...

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China's Tianwen-3 mission, which aims to carry out a Mars sample return, has achieved breakthrough results in relevant key technologies, mission chief designer Liu Jizhong, who is also a deputy to the ...

NASA has awarded a contract to build a testbed for optically guided rendezvous and docking in Mars orbit — a key technique that will be required for a Mars sample return mission. A sample return ...

What turns an oddly patterned Martian rock into one of the most watched clues in planetary science? For NASA’s Perseverance ...

NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget ...