Japan Launches MMX to Bring Back a Piece of Phobos
JAXA launched MMX on 20 October 2026 on a mission to orbit Phobos, land a rover and bring at least 10 grams of the Martian moon back to Australia in 2031.
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ESA to Build Its Own Radar for the EnVision Venus Mission as NASA Steps Back
ESA is pressing ahead with a European radar for its EnVision Venus orbiter after NASA signalled it is unlikely to deliver the US-built VenSAR instrument.
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IBM and NASA Open-Source a Foundation Model for the Moon
The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model turns decades of lunar observations into an open model and dataset, beating prior methods on key surface features by up to 23%.
By TPW Editorial3 min read