Beijing (AFP) Sept 29, 2009 - China has completed a high-resolution, three-dimensional map of the entire surface of the moon, in an important step towards a future lunar landing, an expert involved in the project said Tuesday.
Cleveland OH (SPX) Sep 29, 2009 - Flying high over the Gulf of Mexico, researchers from NASA and Case Western Reserve University found a key to unlocking oxygen from the surface of the moon.
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 29, 2009 - The European Space Agency's SMART-1 team has released an image of the future impact site of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). LCROSS will search for water ice on the Moon by making two impacts into a crater named Cabeus A at the lunar South Pole. The impacts are scheduled for 11:30 am UT on 9 October 2009.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2009 - On certain nights, an arresting green line pierces the sky above NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It's a laser directed at the moon, visible when the air is humid. No, we're not repelling an invasion. Instead, we're tracking our own spacecraft.
New Delhi, India (XNA) Sep 28, 2009 - Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Chairman Madhavan Nair on Friday claimed that it is possible to extract water from the Moon just a few hours after it was confirmed that water was present on the lunar surface.
Bangalore, India (AFP) Sept 25, 2009 - India on Friday hailed the discovery of water on the moon as a triumph for its lunar programme as the country aims to cement its reputation as a serious player in the space industry.
College Park MD (SPX) Sep 25, 2009 - New data from the Deep Impact spacecraft and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), an instrument aboard India's recently ended Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, provide, for the first time, clear evidence that water exists on the surface of the Moon.
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Sep 24, 2009 - Team Selenokhod, a Russian group of engineers and managers, has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks as outlined in the competition's official rules.
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Sept 23, 2009 - Saudi Arabia launched a new hi-tech, co-ed university on the Red Sea coast on Wednesday, aiming to catapult into vanguard global technological research and break through religious barriers to women's opportunities.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 23, 2009 - In early October, NASA's LCROSS mission will impact a crater near the Moon's south pole, creating a massive plume of debris that will be visible from Earth. Telescopes on the ground, and on board the LCROSS shepherd spacecraft, will search this plume for evidence of water vapour.
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2009 - Over its ten months of operation, the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) has gathered data for a total of 30 solar flares, giving the most accurate measurements to date of magnesium, aluminum, silicon, calcium, and iron in the lunar surface.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 22, 2009 - Using a colossal radio telescope in the Mojave Desert, school kids around the world are helping NASA track the LCROSS spacecraft as it heads for a crash landing on the Moon.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 18, 2009 - NASA reported Thursday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon. The spacecraft already has made significant progress toward creating the most detailed atlas of the moon's south pole to date. Scientists released preliminary images and data from LRO's seven instruments.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 17, 2009 - Armadillo Aerospace this past week successfully flew its Scorpius vehicle twice in two hours between a pair of landing pads to qualify for the $1 million top prize in NASA's Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.
NASA has concluded two weeks of technology development tests on two of the agency's prototype lunar rovers.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 14, 2009 - NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) is racing toward a double-impact on the moon at 7:30 am EDT on Oct. 9th. NASA has announced exactly where the crash will take place.
