Lunar & Planetary Missions | Drew Ex Machina

2 Apr

2014

April 2, 2014

Trajectory Analysis of the Soviet 1964 Venus Missions

Fifty years ago today the Soviet Union launched Zond 1 on a mission to land on Venus. Unfortunately this probe succumbed to a series of malfunctions […]

Lunar & Planetary Missions, Spaceflight

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31 Mar

2014

March 31, 2014

If at First You Don’t Succeed…

Now available on line in The Space Review are “If at first you don’t succeed – Part One” and “Part Two” which recount the history of […]

Lunar & Planetary Missions, Spaceflight, Unmanned Spaceflight

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1960s, Mars 1, Object 2MV, Offsite Publications, OKB-1, Soviet Mars Missions, Soviet Venus Missions

27 Mar

2014

March 27, 2014

A Europa-Io Sample Return Mission

A couple of weeks ago the Obama Administration released its proposed budget for FY2015. NASA’s budget (which is almost certainly subject to change by Congress as […]

Astrobiology Missions, Lunar & Planetary Missions, Solar System, Spaceflight

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Europa Missions, Io Missions, Sample Return Missions, Trajectory Analysis