Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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Arianespace is probably best-known as the launch services operator for the European Space Agency, and thus closely associated with Ariane rocket operations from Europe's spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. The firm, founded in 1980 and ...
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The European Space Agency(ESA)has formally declared that the Envisat environmental and remote sensing satellite mission is now over,following the satellite's 8 April loss of contact and subsequent failure to reestablish it. The attempt at ...
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