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Mars Rover Devours Budgets

Monday, July 13th, 2009 - 18:55:59 - Sarah Gingichashvili

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), NASA's souped-up 1-tonne rover due for launch in 2011, needs yet more money. The latest budget overrun could for...

Sandbox Readied to Plot Mars Rover's Escape

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 - 17:53:16 - Ehud Rattner

NASA plans to fill a 'sandbox' with simulated Martian soil this week to test escape manoeuvres for the Mars rover Spirit, which has been stuck in a...

Mars Rovers Roll On to Five Years

Sunday, January 4th, 2009 - 10:09:45 - Ehud Rattner

The US space agency's (NASA) Mars rovers are celebrating a remarkable five years on the Red Planet. The first robot, named Spirit, landed on 3...

NASA Tests Rover Concepts in Arizona
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
NASA’s recent tests of the lunar rover have taken the vehicle to its limits. Since the moon has such a harsh environment...

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Europe delays Next Mars mission

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 - 19:02:22 - Iddo Genuth

Europe is delaying its flagship space mission to Mars by more than two years. The ExoMars rover, which will search for signs of life on the Red...

NASA Tests Lunar Rover in Arizona

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 - 14:11:34 - Ehud Rattner

NASA is practicing for future lunar road trips, and reporters are invited to observe the activities. The annual Desert RATS, or Research and...

NASA Mars Rover Ascends To Level Ground

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 - 18:37:35 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large...

CNN: Google Launches New Space Race

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 - 18:48:37 - Ehud Rattner

When Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, he uttered unforgettable words. But the next visitor to roam the lunar landscape...

MAARS Has a License to Kill
Monday, October 15th, 2007 - Daniel Schendowich
Two months after the first three fully armed SWORD robots were set free to patrol the vast sands of Iraq, Foster-Miller, the...