NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission may cost up to $11 billion, risking c Lockheed Martin proposes a reduced-cost plan using InSight lander techn Rocket Lab also offered a budget-friendly MSR proposal i ...

With Trump’s new budget cutting NASA science programs, the Mars Sample Return mission could be replaced by a private-sector ...

The spacecraft will explore both moons and collect a sample of Phobos and bring it to Earth. This will be a major dedicated mission to Phobos and Deimos. MMX is scheduled to be launched in 2024, and ...

The new test proved the capability of a new propellant that will enhance the rocket's performance, making a sample return mission from Mars increasingly viable.

Japan tests its Mars moon sample-return probe ahead of 2026 ... MMX is a complex mission to collect samples from the moon Phobos and deliver them to Earth to solve the riddle of the origin of the ...

Phobos is larger, and its name comes ... mission to land on Phobos and return a sample of its surface materials to Earth. ... and is scheduled to launch in 2024 and return its samples to Earth in ...

An illustration showing the slate of robotics needed for the Mars Sample Return mission. Illustration: NASA NASA is setting up an independent review board to oversee the Mars Sample Return mission ...

The Russian Space Agency attempted a sample return mission to Phobos in 2011 named Fobos-Grunt, but after safely reaching Earth orbit, the spacecraft failed to initiate the burn necessary to fly ...

The origin of the martian moons Phobos and Deimos is still an unsolved mystery in planetary research. Both moons will be the targets of the Japanese Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. A ...

Phobos is the target of the return sample mission Martian Moons eXploration by JAXA that will analyze in great details the physical and compositional properties of the satellite from orbit, from ...