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NG-Built Antennas Helping Provide Data On Moon's Thermal History For Japan's KAGUYA (SELENE) Mission
Carpenteria CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2008Four specialized antennas built by Northrop Grumman Corporation for the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are functioning as expected after deploying successfully onboard the SELenological and ENgineering Explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE), Japan's first large lunar explorer. The four dipole antennas deployed to their 15-meter (49.5 feet) full design length Oct. 31. Manufactu ... more Near-Earth Asteroid 2007 TU24 To Pass Close To Past Earth On Jan 29 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2008Asteroid 2007 TU24, discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on October 11, 2007 will closely approach the Earth to within 1.4 lunar distances (334,000 miles) on 2008 Jan. 29 08:33 UT. This object, between 150 and 600 meters in diameter, will reach an approximate apparent magnitude 10. 3 on Jan. 29-30 before quickly becoming fainter as it moves further from Earth. For a brief time the asteroid wi ... more Amateur Radio Operators Asked To Tune Into Lunar Radar Bounce 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008Scientists at the Air Force/Navy High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska and the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) in New Mexico back in October, 2007 received what is believed to be the lowest frequency RF echo off the lunar surface. They are set to best that this weekend with yet another lunar echo experiment, and they are asking help from Amateur Radio operators the world over to tune in. ... more ISRO Planning To Launch Satellite To Study The Sun 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 18, 2008In the midst of the buzz about Chandrayaan, the moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch a satellite to study the sun. 'Aditya' should be up in space by 2012 to study the dynamic solar corona, the outermost region of the sun. This fiery region has temperatures of over one million degrees, with raging solar winds that reach a velocity of up to 1000 km a se ... more With Moon Dirt In Demand, Geoscientist's Business Is Booming 
Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 17, 2008After 43 years, Dr. James L. Carter has retired from teaching and research at the University of Texas at Dallas, but he is not giving up his other job: making fake moon dirt. The geoscientist has parlayed his arcane specialty as an expert on lunar soil into a full-time business, ETSimulants. The company makes and ships tons of lunar regolith stimulant, or fake moon dirt, to the National Aeronau ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 11, 2008NASA's next mission to Earth's closest astronomical body is in the midst of integration and testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, known as LRO, will spend at least a year mapping the surface of the moon. Data from the orbiter will help NASA select safe landing sites for astronauts, identify lunar resources and study how the moon's envir ... more Scientists Detect Lowest Frequency Radar Echo From The Moon 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2008A team of scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory, the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL's) Research Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., and the University of New Mexico (UNM) has detected the lowest frequency radar echo from the moon ever seen with earth-based receivers. In the lunar echo experiment (more properly called a lunar bistatic radar experiment), the A ... more ISRO Saw String Of Successes In 2007 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Jan 03, 2008In the year gone by, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved self-reliance in launch vehicle technology with the successful ground testing of the Cryogenic Upper Stage, a key component in putting heavier payloads in orbit. Capping a string of successes in 2007 in space research, India is poised to take a giant leap forward in the new year with the launch of its maiden moon mission Ch ... more Lockheed Martin Spacecraft To Be Flown For NASA's Grail Lunar Mission 
Denver CO (SPX) Jan 02, 2008The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) newest mission will analyze the internal structure and gravitational forces of the Earth's moon. The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, mission is the latest mission under NASA's Discovery Program. Lockheed Martin will design, build and operate the GRAIL spacecraft. The $375-million GRAIL mission is led by principa ... more |
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San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2007Enceladus, the tiny satellite of Saturn, is colder than ice, but data gathered by the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan has detected a hot spot that could mean there is life in the old moon after all. In fact, for researchers of the outer planets, Enceladus is so intellectually hot, it's smokin'. The heat being generated on the moon's south pole at a hot spot is enough to eject p ... more KAGUYA (SELENE) Observations Using The Spectral Profiler 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 17, 2007The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) verified the Spectral Profiler (SP) onboard the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) orbiting approximately 100 km above the lunar surface, through initial observations on November 3, 2007, and subsequent data analysis. The obtained data is the world's first continuous reflectance spectra of the far side of the Moon in the visible and near infrared regio ... more Soyuz-FG Carrier Rocket Puts Canadian Satellite Into Orbit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 17, 2007Russia successfully launched Friday a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with a Canadian satellite on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. The Soyuz carrier rocket with a Fregat booster put a Radarsat-2 earth remote sensing satellite into a solar-synchronized orbit with an altitude of 805 kilometers (about 500 miles) to join the previous Canadian satelli ... more India installs antennas for planned moon mission: official 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Dec 16, 2007India has installed a pair of giant antennas to monitor a planned robotic mission to the moon next year, making it one of a few nations with deep space tracking ability, officials said. The deep space network at Byalalu, 45 kilometres (30 miles) from Bangalore, will keep track of the Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission and provide command support during its two-year orbit around the moon, India's sp ... more
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