A major mission driver for space exploration is to maximise science data return whilst minimising ground-based human intervention and hence associated operations costs. Future robotic exploration such as the ESA/NASA ExoMars ...

A proposal entitled Europlanet Research Infrastructure (RI) has been submitted to the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). This aims to “consolidate the integration of the planetary science community (which started with ...

The Beagle 2 robotic arm was studied to evaluate its suitability as a basis for the design of a lightweight instrument deployment arm for a future planetary rover mission. Newly developed circuitry allowed the arm to be ...