Madras, India (AFP) Jan 25, 2005 - If India's first lunar mission scheduled for 2007 is successful, it will launch another one by 2015, the head of the country's space programme said Tuesday.
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 24, 2005 - Boston University Professor Harlan Spence recently learned that his proposal for CRaTER, an instrument that will measure and characterize the potential biological effects of cosmic radiation on humans, was one of six selected by NASA for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission scheduled for fall 2008.
London, UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2005 - Simulated moon dust has been used to make a key component of a working solar cell, giving an unexpected boost to President George W. Bush's project of setting up a colony on the moon, reports New Scientist.
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 18, 2005 - While approaching its final operational orbit around the Moon, SMART-1 interrupted the Electric Propulsion operations on Monday 10 January 2005. The reason for this delay before reaching the target orbit is to estimate the remaining fuel and plan accurately for a mission extension.
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 13, 2005 - NASA has selected a scientific instrument called LAMP (or Lyman Alpha Mapping Project) to be developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and flown on its upcoming Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. LRO is the first space mission in NASA's planned return of robots and humans to the Moon. LRO will carry six instruments when it launches in 2008.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 22, 2004 - NASA has selected six proposals to provide instrumentation and associated exploration/science measurement investigations for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the first spacecraft to be built as part of the Vision for Space Exploration.
Beijing (SPX) Dec 17, 2004 - China is scheduled to host the Eighth International Conference on the Exploration and Utilizationof the Moon in July of 2006, the Chinese Society of Astronautics said Thursday.
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 26, 2004 - A potential energy source found on the moon's surface could hold the key to meeting future energy demands as the earth's fossil fuels dry up in the coming decades, scientists said last Friday.
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 26, 2004 - Scientists from leading space nations closed a conference on moon exploration here last Friday with a call for global cooperation to achieve a permanent human lunar base by 2024.
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 25, 2004 - Japan's struggling lunar programme is plagued by money shortages and technical hitches, the country's space officials attending an international conference say. We're strapped for cash. To solve problems we need an additional 10 million dollars every year, said Hitoshi Mizutani, chairman of the Department of Solid Planetary Science at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 25, 2004 - The United States could launch a mission in 2010 that would land two stationary robots on the moon to collect rock samples before returning to earth, a US scientist said here Thursday.
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 25, 2004 - China will launch its lunar orbiter Chang'e 1 to explore the moon's environment and study the thickness of its soil by the end of 2007, a senior space official said Thursday. Sun Huixian, deputy chief engineer at the Center for Space Science and Applied Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said Beijing also has plans to send two more unmanned missions by 2010.
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 24, 2004 - The next decade will see nations scrambling to build outposts on the moon with each adapting different strategies to use it as a base to explore space, according to scientists attending a conference on lunar exploration.
Udaipur, India (AFP) Nov 23, 2004 - India will launch more missions to the moon if its maiden unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-1, slated to be launched by 2008, is successful in mapping the lunar surface, a top space official said Tuesday.
Thirty-five years ago this week, the sedentary, fine-grained powder located at 3.01239¿ S latitude, 23.42157¿ W longitude began to rise, billow and race off toward the horizon.
Paris (ESA) Nov 17, 2004 - Europe's SMART-1 is successfully making its first orbit of the Moon, a significant milestone for the first of Europe's Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology (SMART) spacecraft.
