29, adding a reusable lander capable of making multiple trips between Mars orbit and the surface. The company presented an updated version of the Mars Base Camp concept during a talk at the 68th ...

On Monday, it was revealed that Lockheed Martin, and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) have been selected to carry out concept studies for a Mars lander mission in 2018 as a prelude to ...

Credit: ISAS/JAXA WASHINGTON — An institute in Japan’s space agency is pursuing a concept that could allow the agency to send small rovers to the surface of Mars. In a talk at a plenary ...

Lockheed Martin unveils a new design for a reusable vehicle to travel from the moon's surface to a proposed lunar space station as much as you like. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.

A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has outlined the decade-long development and testing of what was ...

Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration: A Sample Retrieval Lander would launch in 2028, carrying a NASA-led Mars rocket and small Mars helicopters. JPL-Caltech/NASA At the time ...

Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Concept Illustration: A Sample Retrieval Lander would launch in 2028, carrying a NASA-led Mars rocket and small Mars helicopters. JPL-Caltech/NASA Next, the rocket ...

One challenge in the design of the Sample Retrieval Lander concept is that the craft would be the largest and heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on Mars. As well as the rocket, the lander will ...

Initially, the Mars Sample Return mission concept included a so-called fetch ... several hundred yards across the Martian surface to a lander near Jezero Crater, where the sample tubes would ...