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 ...

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’s space agency (JAXA) is sending a mission to travel to Mars which will survey the Red Planet’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos. The spacecraft will explore both moons and collect a sample of ...

Japan is putting its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft through a series of tests ahead of its launch to Mars next year. MMX is a complex mission to collect samples from the moon Phobos ...

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 ...

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is in big trouble, and the space agency is grasping at straws to find a new plan to make it work.

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 ...

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 ESA and its Member States are part of the upcoming Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to land on Phobos and r eturn a sample of its surface materials to Earth.

JAXA is slated to launch its MMX mission to Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars, in 2024 and return a sample from Phobos that will reach Earth in 2029.

The spacecraft will spend three years around Mars conducting science operations to observe Phobos and Deimos. MMX will also land on Phobos' surface and collect a sample before returning to Earth. 6.