Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were ... in which JAXA sent a spacecraft to the asteroid Ryugu with the German-French MASCOT lander on board. On 3 October 2018, MASCOT landed on ...

The intended transport vehicle is an International Space Enterprises (phobos class) lander atop a Proton launcher capable of delivering approximately 17,000kg into low Earth orbit. The design team has ...

Markus Grebenstein from the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics and Stéphane Mary from the French space agency CNES are the joint project managers for the IDEFIX lander. IDEFIX will land on the ...