Support team at SMOPS mission

Analogue astronaut missions require strong organisation and planning.The SMOPS mission involves several people in different fields and activities: . Support organisation and management : Federico Monaco, Paolo Guardabasso and Vittorio Netti, with Mars Planet. . Experiment support and crew activities : Anna Nelson, Laura Sopegno, Guillaume Thirion. . Outreach activities : Federico Monaco, Paolo Guardabasso,…

The importance of the analogue research

Space missions are fundamental for technological, scientific and social advancement of humans ????????️ Analogue research helps us identify the challenges and test potential solutions for planetary exploration, never forgetting Earth applications ???? Analogue sites and stations bring people together, and fuel our desire to search and discover. ???????? Check our website www.smops.space and @marsplanet_org‘s LinkedIn page…

The importance of Space Medicine

The Space Medicine Operations (SMOPS) #analogue mission, organised by Mars Planet, will take several experiments and technologies to the The Mars Society’s Mars Desert Research Station this November. The mission is mainly focused on future astronauts’ #health monitoring, and on #technologies that could support their activities in remote locations (both on Earth and on other…

D-Orbit (www.dorbit.space) announces successful launch of another ION Satellite Carrier (ION)

D-Orbit (www.dorbit.space), an Italian company leader in the space logistics and orbital transportation industry, announced the successful launch of another ION Satellite Carrier (ION), its proprietary orbital transportation vehicle. ION lifted off on June 30th, 2021, at 9:31 pm CEST, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape…

NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity could keep flying the Martian skies for months

The future of aerial Mars exploration looks bright. NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity, which landed inside Mars’ Jezero Crater with the agency’s Perseverance rover in February,  has now completed eight Red Planet flights. That’s three more than the maximum targeted for the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper’s original technology-demonstration mission — and Ingenuity isn’t done yet. The little rotorcraft’s current…