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Chang'e 1 To Skip Correction, Flies To Moon Directly
Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 05, 2007China's lunar probe Chang'e 1 will skip the scheduled orbital correction tomorrow as the orbiter is operating normally and is right on its planned trajectory to enter the moon orbit on Monday. The correction was the third scheduled one after Chang'e 1 skipped the first one planned on Thursday and finished its first orbital correction yesterday morning, Xinhua news agency reported. ... more China's Lunar Probe Completes Last Orbital Transfer Before Leaving Earth 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 01, 2007China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 completed its fourth orbital transfer on Wednesday afternoon, a critical move to push it to fly to the moon "in a real sense." The engine on the probe was started at 5:15 p.m.. Thirteen minutes later, the probe was successfully shifted to the earth-moon transfer orbit with an apogee of about 380,000 km. The main engine of Chang'e-1 started operation and helped ... more New Carrier Rocket Series To Be Built 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 01, 2007A week after the launch of the first lunar orbiter, the government announced Tuesday the building of a new family of rocket launchers and a launch center. The Long March 5 carrier rockets will be made in the northern coastal city of Tianjin while the new launch center will be located in the southernmost province of Hainan. The next-generation rockets will be able to carry up to 25 tons to ... more NASA To Establish Nationwide Lunar Science Institute 
Washingtion DC (SPX) Oct 31, 2007NASA has announced its intent to establish a new lunar science institute. This effort, with dispersed teams across the nation, will help lead the agency's research activities for future lunar science missions related to NASA's exploration goals. Named the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), the effort will be managed from NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Ames currently manages ... more If We Had No Moon 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007The Earth has a large moon, making it unique in the inner solar system. Mercury and Venus have no moons, and Mars has only two small asteroid-sized objects orbiting it. In this essay, the father of the SMART-1 lunar mission, Bernard Foing of the European Space Agency, looks at the effect the Moon has had on the Earth, and explores how different our world would be if we had no planetary companion ... more |
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Xichang, China (XNA) Oct 25, 2007China's first moon orbiter which is likely to be launched at around 6:00 p.m. Wednesday from a southwest launch center, has been named after "moon lady" Chang'e, a mythical Chinese goddess who flew to the moon. Chang'e and her husband Hou Yi, an outstanding archer, are the subjects of one of the most popular of Chinese mythological legends. According to one version of the story, Chang'e was the ... more NASA Offers 2 Million Dollar Lunar Lander Competition Prize 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2007During the X PRIZE Cup Oct. 27-28, NASA's Centennial Challenges Program will offer prizes totaling $2 million if competing teams successfully meet the requirements of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. The challenge will take place at Holloman Air Force Base, in Alamogordo, N.M. The purpose of the lunar lander challenge is to accelerate technology development leading to a commer ... more Chang'e-1 - New Mission To Moon Lifts Off 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 25, 2007A bold new mission to the Moon was launched today by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). Chang'e-1 blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan, atop a Long March 3A rocket. Chang'e-1 represents the first step in the Chinese ambition to land robotic explorers on the Moon before 2020. Chang'e-1 has four mission goals to accomplish. The first is to make three-dimensi ... more China's Lunar Probe Chief Commander: Scientific Exploration, Not Competition 
Xichang, China (XNA) Oct 25, 2007China will not embark on any lunar probe competition "in any form with any country" and will "share the results of its moon exploration with the whole world" in its pursuit of a policy of peaceful use of airspace, said a chief commander of the country's first lunar satellite project. "The decision on the lunar probe was made completely in accordance with China's own conditions, which is not mean ... more |
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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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