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Rocket Tests Move NASA Closer To The Lunar Vision
Cleveland OH (SPX) Jul 11, 2007A liquid oxygen-hydrogen pump fed engine developed to demonstrate advanced rocket technologies for future space vehicles achieved a major technical milestone in throttling capability. The engine was designed to demonstrate successful throttling from full power down to 10 percent of its thrust. This flexibility to control the flow of fuel through an engine is necessary for a lunar lander, allowin ... more Thinking Big About Space Telescopes 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 10, 2007NASA's next moon rocket is still on the drawing board, but already scientists are dreaming up big new things to do with it. "The Ares V rocket will be able to launch missions whose volume or mass or both can be handled no other way," says Philip Stahl, an internationally respected optical engineer now at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Maybe, he says, we should use it "to launch big space ... more Northrop Grumman Helps NASA Shape Plans For Affordable Lunar Lander 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2007The lunar lander that will carry NASA astronauts to the moon's surface by the end of the next decade will benefit from more than 50 years of technological change -- and more than 50 years of unique engineering and operational experience from Northrop Grumman Corporation, the designer and producer of the original Apollo Lunar Module. Since late 2006, the company has hosted a series of techn ... more Cassini Scientists Wring Out The Details On Spongy Hyperion 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 10, 2007Scientists on NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn now have a better understanding of why the odd moon Hyperion has such an unusual appearance. The crucial factor in creating the strange, sponge-like appearance of Hyperion appears to be its extremely low density, say Cassini scientists in a research paper being published in the July 5 issue of the journal Nature. The researchers examined Cassini sp ... more Summer Moon Illusion 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 29, 2007On Saturday night, June 30th, step outside at sunset and look around. You'll see a giant moon rising in the east. It looks like Earth's moon with the usual craters and seas, but something's wrong. This full moon is strangely inflated. It's huge! You've just experienced the Moon Illusion. Sky watchers have known for thousands of years that low-hanging moons look unnaturally big. Cameras don't see ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 22, 2007NASA has selected proposals, including two from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for future lunar science activities. In addition, the agency has established two new programs that will enhance research made possible by the Vision for Space Exploration. The proposals and programs are part of an effort by NASA to develop new opportunities to conduct important science investigation ... more X PRIZE Announces Competitors For Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge 
Santa Monica CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2007A real rocket race is on the horizon with the return of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (NG-LLC) -- the centerpiece of the Wirefly X PRIZE Cup and Holloman Air and Space Expo. In the Challenge's second year, the number of teams competing for the $2 million purse has increased from four teams to nine. The NG-LLC, sponsored by NASA's Centennial Challenges Program, is designed to ... more Mirror, Mirror On The Moon -- The Most Powerful Telescope Of All 
Paris (AFP) June 20, 2007Desolate, airless and with no people around for hundreds of thousands of kilometers (miles), the Moon is a great place -- for astronomers, that is. Skywatchers have an enduring hope of one day building a lunar observatory, where gleamings from the earliest stars can be snared without the curse of man-made light pollution and Earth's atmospheric distortion. But making telescopic mirrors ... more China To Increase Payload Capacity Of Carrier Rockets 
Beijing (Xinhua) Jun 19, 2007China plans to develop a new generation of carrier rockets with an increased payload capacity in order to advance its lunar exploration program, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The payload capacity of China's Long March series of carrier rockets will be increased from its current weight of 9.5 tons to 25 tons, an official with the corporation said. ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jun 05, 2007Today, two and a half years after the historic landing of ESA's Huygens probe on Titan, a new set of results on Saturn's largest moon is ready to be presented. Titan, as seen through the eyes of Huygens still holds exciting surprises, scientists say. On 14 January 2005, after a seven-year voyage on board the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, ESA's Huygens probe spent 2 hours and 28 minutes ... more A Climate Monitoring Station On The Moon 
Ann Arbor, MI (SPX) May 30, 2007Poets may see "a face of plaintive sweetness" or "a cheek like beryl stone" when they look at the moon, but Shaopeng Huang sees something else altogether: the ideal location for a network of observatories dedicated to studying climate change on Earth. Using data from an Apollo 15 experiment whose original intent was thwarted by unanticipated lunar surface conditions, the University of Michigan ... more Magnetic Field Uses Sound Waves To Ignite Solar Ring Of Fire 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2007Sound waves escaping the Sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power the chromosphere, a thin region of the sun's atmosphere which appears as a ruby red "ring of fire" around the moon during a total solar eclipse, according to research funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF). These results were presented May 29, at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in ... more No Plans To Join NASA Lunar Program Says Russian Space Agency 
Washington (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2007Russia will not participate in joint lunar exploration with NASA, but will assist the U.S. with its shuttle program until 2015, a spokesman for the Russian space agency said. After U.S. President George W. Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration in 2004, a plan for new manned lunar missions, the country's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) elaborated a program that ... more
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