WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not everyone has signed on the dotted line to join NASA's plan to start sending astronauts to the moon in 2024 via an outpost in lunar orbit known as the Gateway, but the world's leading space agencies are already staking out their roles.
Russia, for example, plans to work on its own space transportation system that would parallel NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule! We did not find results for: Space agencies focus in on their roles . Check spelling or type a new query.!! Europe and Japan are planning to provide logistical support for space operations. And Canada will be supplying the Gateway's robotic arm.
Space agency officials laid out the status of their plans for the final frontier today during a panel discussion and follow-up news briefing at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington.
The top item on the agenda for crewed space exploration is NASA's Artemis program, which aims to send the first woman and the next man to the moon's south polar region in 2024. Based on what's already been said about Artemis, it's a safe bet that the first two moonwalkers will be American — but NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said representatives of NASA's partner space agencies will eventually get their chance as well.
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We Could Go to Venus with Today's Technology, Scientists Say | Space
We could go to Venus tomorrow with the technology we have today, urged a NASA scientific advisory group, and the group's members would like to get a mission off the ground as soon as possible.
Representatives from the Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) made a presentation to NASA's planetary science advisory committee on Sept. 24, recommending that the agency prioritize a mission to Venus, the second-closest planet to the sun.
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"Moreover, the Mars program has long united around a single goal," Dyar added, "which is to bring samples back from Mars. NASA Headquarters is supporting that goal with planning now. So my feeling is that although many outstanding science questions about Mars remain, they are second order compared to the dire state of knowledge about Venus."
So VEXAG hopes that NASA's current call for smaller Discovery missions will bear some fruit. The announcement of opportunity , which closed July 1, includes at least three Venus proposals. The Step-1 selections should be announced around January 2020.
CubeSats Are Small Yet Mighty Important In Space Exploration : NPR
Engineer Joel Steinkraus tests solar panels on one of two CubeSats that made up NASA's Mars Cube One mission. The MarCO CubeSats — the first to be sent into deep space — flew to Mars and relayed telemetry from NASA's InSight lander. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
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CubeSats are small, only about twice the size of a Rubik's Cube. As the name suggests, they're cube-shaped, 4 inches on each side, and weigh in at about 3 pounds. But with the miniaturization of electronics, it's become possible to pack a sophisticated mission into a tiny package.
CubeSats have been around since 1999 . Two professors, Jordi Puig-Suari from California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs from Stanford University, wanted to standardize the design specifications of what they termed "picosatellites." That would make it easier for teams of college students anywhere in the world to collaborate. What's more, they were cheap enough that even students could make one.
RTL Today - Space exploration: Luxembourg Space Agency signs joint statement outlining
Luxembourg has ambitious plans for its future in space exploration, one of those plans being the creation of a Luxembourg-based European Research Centre.
The Grand Duchy's ambitions have been reinforced by its choice of partners. A Luxembourgish delegation, including representatives of the Luxembourg Space Agency and the Minister of the Economy Etienne Schneider, visited Washington DC on Tuesday to take part in the 70th International Astronautical Congress.
At the congress, the LSA signed two documents reinforcing its collaboration with NASA and the German Space Agency. Alongside the United States, Luxembourg is one of the first countries to put exploiting space resources into legislation. On Tuesday, both countries reinforced their collaboration by signing a joint statement detailing "a number of potential areas for future collaboration such as space applications, space exploration and utilization, including the sustainable utilization of space resources, as well as sharing of scientific data and education." The agreement reinforces the Memorandum of Understanding signed in May 2019.
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Spotlight: China's absence from global space conference due to "visa problem" causes concern -
Photo taken on Oct. 21, 2019 shows a plenary of the International Astronautical Congress in Washington D.C., the United States. "I miss an important space agency in this panel. Where is China?" Attendees at the plenary of the ongoing weeklong International Astronautical Congress (IAC) here brought the question atop the panel voting system. (Xinhua/Zhou Zhou)
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The crowd-sourced question popped up after the audience found that Wu Yanhua, vice administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA) scheduled to speak at the IAC kickoff event on Monday with officials from five other national space agencies, was conspicuously absent.
Pascale Ehrenfreund, the incoming president of International Astronautical Federation (IAF), which is IAC's organizer, attributed Wu's no-show to "time conflict," but some attendees at the meeting hinted at "visa problem."
Astronauts may be placed in hibernation for journey to Mars, says European Space Agency scientist
A stronauts travelling to Mars could be put into hibernation to prevent fights breaking out on the seven month flight and avoid using up resources, a scientist at the European Space Agency (Esa) has suggested.
Professor Mark McCaughrean, Senior Science Advisor in the Directorate of Science at Esa, said the agency was now seriously considering placing passengers into a kind of 'suspended animation' and experiments were already ongoing in animals.
"I think it's possible," he told The Telegraph at the launch of the Moving to Mars exhibition at the Design Museum in London.
"We're even doing experiments now on artificial hibernation to put someone under for seven months, and not worry about food...
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