We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...

Soviet satellite Kosmos 482 is set to tumble back to Earth's atmosphere after 50 years in orbit, and its landing spot remains ...

When the 1,091 pound (495 kilograms), 3-foot (1 meter) lander returns to Earth ... Of course, the biggest chances are that it ...

Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were ... in which JAXA sent a spacecraft to the asteroid Ryugu with the German-French MASCOT lander on board. On 3 October 2018, MASCOT landed on ...

DLR and CNES were also involved in Hayabusa2 with the MASCOT lander. The Japanese Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will explore how the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed, and improve ...