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Japan plans two more moon missions
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 27, 2007Japan plans to carry out two more missions to the moon and then collaborate internationally to put a man on the lunar surface, a Japanese space scientist said Thursday. Asia's biggest economy this month successfully launched Kaguya (or Selene), its first lunar orbiter, stealing a march over China and India which are planning unmanned missions of their own to the moon. Japan's next missio ... more China aims for lunar base after 2020 
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 26, 2007China plans to set up a lunar base after 2020, capping a series of preparatory robotic missions and a human landing on the moon, a Chinese space official said here Wednesday. The Chang'e 1 lunar probe is now at the launch site and undergoing final tests ahead of its scheduled launch before the end of 2007, said Ji Wu, director of China's Centre for Space Science and Applied Research. Chi ... more Roving The Moon 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a stable platform for drilling deep into extraterrestrial soils. Called "Scarab," this four-wheeled robot will never leave the Earth. But it will demonstrate technologies that a lunar rover wil ... more Asian spacefarers race for the moon 
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 25, 2007Asian giants Japan, China and India are engaged in a race to map lunar resources and make the moon a platform to explore planets beyond, amid a renewed burst of global space activity. Japan flagged off the Asian lunar race on September 14 when it successfully launched its first lunar orbiter. China plans to launch its own moon probe before the end of the year, followed by India in the first ... more NASA, NSBRI Select 17 Proposals In Space Radiation Research 
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 26, 2007The crews of future missions to the moon and Mars could face serious health risks from exposure to space radiation. NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, known as NSBRI, Houston, will fund 17 new research projects that will enable NASA to better understand and reduce those risks. Scientists at universities, research institutions and private companies in eight states will c ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 18, 2007Marshall Center employees are back at it -- donating time and energy -- exercising on treadmills, bikes, and other equipment to test aspects of a life support system that could someday provide drinking water to people living on the moon or Mars. For almost 20 years, NASA engineers at Marshall have led the design and development of the International Space Station life support system, called the ... more Japan says lunar orbiter launch a success
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 14, 2007Japan's first lunar orbiter successfully blasted into space Friday on the most extensive mission to investigate the moon since the US Apollo programme began nearly four decades ago, officials said. A domestically developed rocket launched with no glitches from a small island in southern Japan at 10:31 am (0131 GMT) carrying the country's hopes of restoring pride in its troubled space ... more Google offers reward to land robot on moon 
New York (AFP) Sept 13, 2007Internet search giant Google on Thursday offered 30 million dollars in prize money for companies to land a robot camera to roam on the moon and send back high-resolution snaps and data. Google launched Google Moon, a page on its site with images mapping out stretches of the orb's pock-marked surface. They are compiled from photographs taken by previous moon missions including the historic ... more Saturn's Moon Iapetus Is The Yin-And-Yang Of The Solar System 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2007Scientists on the Cassini mission to Saturn are poring through hundreds of images returned from the Sept. 10 flyby of Saturn's two-toned moon Iapetus. Pictures returned late Tuesday and early Wednesday show the moon's yin and yang--a white hemisphere resembling snow, and the other as black as tar. Images show a surface that is heavily cratered, along with the mountain ridge that runs ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Sep 03, 2007A year ago, as Europe reached the Moon for the first time, scientists on Earth eagerly watched SMART-1's spectacular impact. New results from the impact analysis and from the instruments still keep coming. One year on, we present ongoing scientific highlights of the mission. The analysis of data and simulations of the satellite's impact provide clues on the dynamics of the ejecta after the ... more NASA's Troubled Future 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2007Some in the aerospace community believe that unless NASA sends astronauts back to the Moon and conducts extensive exploration, it is in danger of disappearing as a government agency. What is the basis for this fear? The last time astronauts began a mission to the Moon was December 7, 1972. Until the Clementine lunar mission in 1994, a leftover spacecraft from a DOD program, robotic ... more Russia plans manned Moon mission by 2025 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 31, 2007Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025 and wants to build a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian space agency Roskosmos said Friday. "According to our estimates we will be ready for a manned flight to the Moon in 2025," Anatoly Perminov told reporters. An "inhabited station" could be built there between 2027 and 2032, he said. ... more HiRISE Confirms Existence of 'Pit Craters' On Mars 
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Aug 30, 2007The High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) has confirmed that a dark pit seen on Mars in an earlier HiRISE image really is a vertical shaft that cuts through lava flow on the flank of the Arsia Mons volcano. Such pits form on similar volcanoes in Hawaii and are called "pit craters." The HiRISE camera, orbiting the red planet on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is the most ... more
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