According to NASA, the rover’s landing was the most challenging touchdown on Mars that’s been attempted by the agency. Right before the landing, NASA engineers were on pins and needles as the rover ...

LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - The British arm of Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the landing platform for the ...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cobham Mission Systems, the world’s leader in critical control solutions, today announced that its space pyrotechnic valves on the NASA Perseverance rover mission ...

Two decades later, the impact of that landing still runs through every major surface mission that has followed. The robot officially known as a Mars Exploration Rover was built for a short campaign, ...

Mars Global Localization (MGL), a tech similar to GPS on Earth, lets Perseverance nail down its coordinates to about 10 inches.

A spectacular new video shows the Mars rover Curiosity's harrowing Red Planet landing in sharp detail, while another captures the drama and excitement surrounding the historic Aug. 5 event. The first ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one ...

With the help of a new optical system, the Perseverance rover can determine its position on Mars autonomously and much more accurately than before.

LONDON (Reuters) - The British arm of Airbus has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the landing platform for the first British-made rover set to ...