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Goddard Instrument Makes Cover Of Science
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2007Goddard's LEISA instrument has become a first-rate photographer, contributing to this spectacular photo of Jupiter, which appeared on the cover of the October 12 issue of the journal Science. It is a montage of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft as it sped past Jupiter on its way to Pluto. The Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) instrument on Ne ... more China Likely To Launch First Moon Orbiter At 6pm On Oct 24th 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 23, 2007China is planning to launch its first moon orbiter at around 6 p.m. on October 24 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. "The satellite will be launched between October 24 and 26 and our first choice is around 6 p.m. on October 24," a spokesman for the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said. The circumlunar satellite, which has been named Chang'e I after the legen ... more Japan's Lunar Explorer Enters Observation Orbit 
Tokyo (XNA) Oct 22, 2007Japan's first lunar probe satellite had been successfully put into observation orbit around the moon, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Friday. According to JAXA's press release issued earlier in the day, the Selenological and Engineering Explorer had finished its task of reducing the maximum distance to the moon and was circling around the moon in an almost rounded orbit. The s ... more Our First Lunar Program: What Did We Get From Apollo 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2007American plans now call for a return of humans to the Moon by around 2020. What can we hope to gain from such a program? It will be helpful to look back at our first lunar program, Apollo, and ask what we got from it, beside some 850 pounds of rock and soil - fascinating to geologists, but perhaps not to all taxpayers. I will try to summarize highlights of the payoff from Apollo. What was the "A ... more Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources Of Jets On Enceladus 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 19, 2007A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's "tiger stripe" fractures that straddle the moon's south polar region. Members of Cassini's imaging team used two years' worth of pictures of the geologically active moon to locate the sour ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 16, 2007China will launch its first lunar probe at the end of this month with preparations already in their final stages, a senior official said Tuesday. Pre-launch tests on the Chang'e I rocket and orbiter were nearly complete and they have been transported to the launch site, the official told state news agency Xinhua. China is also planning to land a human on the moon and make a series of rob ... more China To Launch First Moon Orbiter In Late October 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 17, 2007A senior Chinese official said here Tuesday that researchers and technicians are making final preparations for the launch of the country's first moon orbiter, Chang'e I, at the end of October. Zhang Qingwei, minister in charge of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND), who is attending the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), sa ... more SAIC Awarded NASA Moon Mission Facilities Contract 
San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2007Science Applications International announced that its subsidiary, Benham Companies, has been awarded a $51.4 million cost-plus- incentive-fee contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design, engineer and build two testing facilities. Both facilities will support development of the Orion spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station and t ... more Inspiring Views Celebrate Cassini's Diamond Anniversary 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Ten years ago today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft departed planet Earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and embarked on a seven-year long, circuitous journey of several billion miles across the solar system to the planet Saturn. To celebrate this special occasion, the mission's imaging team is releasing today a spate of captivating new images and movies of the ringed planet and some of its most photo ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Oct 12, 2007Noted for its bizarre hydrocarbon lakes and frozen methane clouds, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, also appears to have widespread drizzles of methane, according to a team of astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley. New near-infrared images from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii show for the first time a nearly global cloud cover at hi ... more Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources Of Jets On Enceladus 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2007A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's "tiger stripe" fractures that straddle the moon's south polar region. Members of Cassini's imaging team used two years' worth of pictures of the geologically active moon to locate the sour ... more Pluto-Bound New Horizons Sees Changes In Jupiter System 
Laurel MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2007The voyage of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by NASA spacecraft. New Horizons passed Jupiter on Feb. 28, riding the planet's gravity to boost its speed and shave three years off its trip to Pluto. It was the eighth spacecraft to visit Jupite ... more NASA Spacecraft To Carry Russian Science Instruments 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2007NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos have agreed to fly two Russian scientific instruments on NASA spacecraft that will conduct unprecedented robotic missions to the moon and Mars. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and Roscosmos head Anatoly Perminov signed agreements in Moscow on Oct. 3 to add the instruments to two future missions: the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scheduled to ... more
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