Flexible Sample Collection Device Headed for Moon, Mars

Mark Carreau October 13, 2020
PlanetVac
PlanetVac planetary sampling test flight on a Xodiac rocket, May 2018.
Credit: Bruce Betts / The Planetary Society
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have selected a new technology for planetary sample collection and return for future missions to the Moon and Martian moon Phobos. Dubbed PlanetVac, the system was developed by Honeybee Robotics of Altadena, California, with support from the...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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