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Aerojet Develops Innovative Reaction Control Engine Technology
Sacramento CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2007Aerojet recently completed developmental testing of an innovative cryogenic oxygen/methane Reaction Control Engine (RCE) critical to ongoing lunar lander architectural decision making. Aerojet completed over 135 tests of the reaction control engine for NASA's Propulsion Cryogenic Advanced Development (PCAD) project of the Exploration Technology Development Program. The Exploration Technolo ... more Planetary Society Joins Private Effort For Moon Mission 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 07, 2007On December 6th, Odyssey Moon, the first team to complete registration for the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE, will unveil its plans to land the first private robotic mission on the Moon. The Planetary Society has joined the Odyssey Moon team to assist in education and public involvement and with international and science liaison for the project. Society Executive Director, Dr. Louis Friedman ... more SMART-1 Produces Travel Maps Of The Lunar North Pole 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 06, 2007A new map obtained with SMART-1 data shows the geography and illumination of the lunar north pole. Such maps will be of great use for future lunar explorers. The lunar poles are very interesting for future science and exploration of the Moon mainly because of their exposure to sunlight. They display areas of quasi-eternal light, have a stable thermal environment and are close to dark areas that ... more Man in the Moon is four billion years old 
Paris (AFP) Dec 5, 2007The plains of solidified lava that give the Moon its quirky human-like face as seen from Earth were created more than four billion years ago, according to a paper appearing on Thursday in Nature, the British science weekly. The evidence comes from an unearthly silvery-grey stone that was blasted off from the face of the Moon, perhaps by an impacting asteroid, and was then captured by Earth's ... more China Will Soon Have Its Own Moon Globe 
Beijing (XNA) Dec 05, 2007China will make its own lunar globe soon, using pictures and data collected by its own moon orbiter, said an official in charge of the country's moon exploration mission on Tuesday. "I believe that China will soon come up with a full map of the moon," said Hu Hao, head of the lunar exploration center under the Commission of Science Technology and Industry of National Defense (COSTIND). "Th ... more |
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Arlington VA (SPX) Dec 03, 2007Presidential campaigns should publicly express their support of NASA's Constellation Program to ensure America's leadership in space exploration as well as boost education, Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey said. The exploration program, which will return astronauts to the moon and explore Mars and beyond, should not be delayed under any circumstances since there i ... more KAGUYA (SELENE) Composes 3-D Movies With Terrain Camera Images 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 30, 2007The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully demonstrated production of stereo movies (3 dimensional movies) of the Moon surface by using stereoscopic images obtained with the Terrain Camera (TC) onboard KAGUYA on Nov. 3, 2007 (Japan Standard Time, JST). This verification was performed as part of the initial check out of mission instruments onboard "KAGUYA" (SELENE), which was inje ... more China Publishes First Moon Picture 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2007China published the first picture of the moon captured by Chang'e-1 on Monday morning, marking the success of the country's first lunar probe project. The framed black-and-white photo was unveiled by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center. The image showed a rough moon surface with scattered round craters both big and small. The area covered by the picture, abou ... more China Has No Timetable For Manned Moon Landing 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2007China currently has no plan to send a man onto the moon, said Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration, on Monday. "I've read reports by foreign media saying that China would carry a manned moon landing in 2020, but I don't think there has been such a plan," Sun told a press conference in Beijing. "So far, our moon mission only includes unmanned probing projects. The su ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Nov 20, 2007South Korea on Tuesday announced an ambitious plan to join Asia's space race by launching a lunar orbiter by 2020 and sending a probe to the moon five years after that. The science ministry unveiled the project one month after China launched its first lunar orbiter and two months after Japan did. Its "road map" requires the nation to complete developing its own 300-tonne rocket at a cost ... more Astronomers Say Moons Like Ours Are Uncommon 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2007The next time you take a moonlit stroll, or admire a full, bright-white moon looming in the night sky, you might count yourself lucky. New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that moons like Earth's - that formed out of tremendous collisions - are uncommon in the universe, arising at most in only 5 to 10 percent of planetary systems. "When a moon forms from a violent c ... more Chang'e-1 Opens Facilities For Data Transmission 
Beijing (XNA) Nov 21, 2007China's first lunar orbiter Chang'e-1, which is now circling the moon at a stable altitude of 200 km, has opened its facilities to transmit data back to earth, a spokesman for the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said Tuesday. The facilities will be tested over the next few days which will help ensure smooth operation of the probe and reliable data transmission, spokesman Pei Zhaoyu sa ... more Moon Rocket Parachute Tests A Success 
Yuma AZ (SPX) Nov 20, 2007How do you bring a 200,000-pound rocket booster back to Earth after it catapults its payload toward the moon? Very carefully! It's something NASA has to learn to do. The agency is laying plans to return to the moon in the next decade, and designs for the new Ares moon rocket call for reusable boosters. These massive side-rockets can't just crash back into the ocean when they're out of fuel -- th ... more
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