NASA has released the final request for proposals for a Mars telecommunications system, confirming requirements that limit ...

NASA solicited proposals for studies of commercial approaches to carrying out some aspects of Mars exploration, including delivery of payloads and communications and imaging services. Credit: NASA ...

NASA is expanding its plans for Mars, looking at not only a big, high-budget, long-term project to bring back a sample from Mars but also smaller, lower-cost missions to enable exploration of the red ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is starting to experience the kinds of cost overruns that have plagued previous high-profile space projects such as the Space Launch System and the James Webb Space ...

Mars has been a source of myth, lore and inspiration since antiquity. It is also an interesting place to research – a legitimate candidate for us to find some form of alien life. Since the 1960s, Mars ...

NASA has selected nine U.S. companies to conduct preliminary concept studies aimed at exploring how commercial services can contribute to future missions to Mars. Each of these companies will receive ...

NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites to provide telecommunications capabilities for future robotic missions to ...

Lab, a nine-month program designed to help Canadian cleantech ventures developing net-new technologies successfully build ...

Among the commercial service concept studies NASA is funding is a proposal by United Launch Alliance to modify its upper-stage engine to deliver large payloads to Mars. Credit: United Launch Alliance ...