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Moonshine Can Reflect Lunar Composition
Phoenix (UPI) Jul 18, 2007U.S. scientists determined that they can predict concentrations of certain minerals on the moon by comparing variations in reflected light. Samples of lunar rocks returned by U.S. astronauts show large variations in titanium oxide concentrations, suggesting complex compositional zonation within the lunar mantle. M.S. Robinson of Arizona State University and colleagues, noting ilminite has ... more NASA Awards Upper Stage Engine Contract For Ares Rockets 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2007NASA has signed a $1.2 billion contract with Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne Inc., of Canoga Park, Calif., for design, development, testing and evaluation of the J-2X engine that will power the upper stages of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles. The contract includes ground and test flight engines. It continues work that began on June 2, 2006, under a preliminary letter contract with Pratt and W ... more 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 |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 27, 2007How big? Consider the following: Ares V will be able to place almost 130,000 kg (284,000 lbs; 8% more than the Saturn V rocket of the 1960s) into low Earth orbit. Designed to deliver cargo to the Moon, the rocket would be large enough to carry primary mirrors 8+ meters wide. For comparison, Hubble's mirror measures 2.4 m. "How does a typical astrophysicist work?" Stahl asks. ... more Moon Jobs May Crater Suggests Rutgers-Camden Researcher 
Camden NJ (SPX) Jun 25, 2007Think your job is tough? Can't wait for summer vacation to "get away from it all"? Just wait, says a Rutgers University-Camden researcher. In the not-too-distant future, some jobs will challenge workers placed far, far away from it all. On the moon, in fact. According to Chester Spell, an associate professor of management at the Rutgers School of Business-Camden, the lunar settlements of tomorrow ... more NASA Plans New Era Of Suitcase Sized Lunar Science 
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 |
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Austin TX (SPX) Jun 11, 2007Vignette's Next-Generation Web solutions are helping NASA engineers and scientists connect and share information online, as the federal agency designs its next generation of space vehicles for the Constellation Program. The Constellation Program is responsible for developing crew exploration and launch vehicles that will send humans back to the moon and then to Mars. ... more Testing Technique For Gravitomagnetic Field Is Ineffective 
Columbia, MO (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has fascinated physicists and generated debate about the origin of the universe and the structure of objects like black holes and complex stars called quasars. A major focus has been on confirming the existence of the gravitomagnetic field, as well as gravitational waves. A physicist at the University of Missouri-Columbia recently argued in ... more Building Our New View Of Titan 
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
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