by Bill D'Zio | Feb 23, 2020
MARS 2020 Rover Launch Window July 17 – Aug. 5, 2020 Launch Location Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida Launching on a ULA Atlas 541 procured under NASA’s Launch Services Program Landing Feb. 18, 2021 Landing Site Jezero Crater, Mars at the...
by Bill D'Zio | Mar 24, 2020
The Mars Surveyor ’98 Polar Lander also known as the Mars Polar Lander was a mission part of NASA’s Mars Surveyor program, a sustained program of robotic exploration of the red planet, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft...
by Bill D'Zio | Mar 24, 2020
The Schiaparelli module (also called EDM) was part of the ExoMars 2016 mission launched on 14 March 2016 on a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan. The EDM was conceived with the objective to validate and demonstrate entry, descent and...
by Bill D'Zio | Mar 22, 2020
The Soyuz spacecraft succeeded the Russian Voskhod spacecraft and was originally designed as part of the Soviet crewed lunar programs. An advantage Soyuz had over the Space Shuttle was the ability to abort in the event of a failure with the launch vehicle....
