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NASA's Newest Concept Vehicles Take Off-Roading Out of This World
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2008In a car commercial, it would sound odd: active suspension, six-wheel drive with independent steering for each wheel, no doors, no windows, no seats and the only color it comes in is gold. But NASA's latest concept vehicle is meant to go way, way off-road -- as in 240,000 miles from the nearest pavement, driving on the moon. NASA is working to send astronauts to the moon by 2020 to set up ... more India's Moon Mission Pushed To July First Week 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 26, 2008India's first planetary mission, Chandrayaan-1, has now been rescheduled to take place in the first week of July as the mission personnel work overtime to sort out payload integration and launch-related issues. "We are targeting the end of June. We will try to make it in the first week of July," a senior scientist associated with the Rs 386 crore moon mission told PTI here on Monday on condition ... more China To Launch Chang'e-2 Lunar Probe Around 2009 
Beijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2008China plans to launch its second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, around 2009, according to a top satellite scientist. Ye Peijian, chief commander and designer of China's first moon probe satellite system, revealed the plan during an interview program on CCTV, China Central Television. However, Ye did not elaborate on the plan with more details. He said Chang'e-1, the country's first lunar ... more The X PRIZE Foundation Announces Official Contenders In Private Moon Race 
Mountain View CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2008The X PRIZE Foundation and Google have announced the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes. This international group of teams will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the ... more Who's Orbiting The Moon 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2008The space around Earth is a busy place, as teeming with traffic as a roundabout. More than 500 active satellites are bustling about up there right now. Some are transmitting radio, television, and telephone signals; others are gathering information about Earth's atmosphere and weather; still others are helping people navigate down here; and the rest are conducting space research. Soon the ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2008On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It's a total lunar eclipse-the last one until Dec. 2010. The Sun goes down. The Moon comes up. You go out and look at the sky. Observing the eclipse is that easy. Maximum eclipse, and maximum beauty, occurs at 10:26 pm EST (7:26 pm PST). A lunar eclipse ... more India to announce lunar mission date this month 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Feb 13, 2008India will announce the date of its first lunar mission by the end of this month, the head of the country's space agency said Wednesday. A report in the Times of India Wednesday said that the launch of Chandrayaan-1, originally planned for April, had been "tentatively postponed" until June or July because of technical reasons. But Indian Space Research Organisation chairman ... more Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves On Earth 
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2008Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. The new findings from the study led by Ralph Lorenz, Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ... more Scientists Study The Plumbing Of The Enceladus Plumes 
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 14, 2008Scientists on the Cassini mission have become out-of-this world "plumbers" as they try to piece together what's happening inside the "pipes" feeding the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Enceladus is jetting out giant geysers three times the size of the moon, and now scientists are beginning to understand how the ice grains are created and how they might have formed. Knowing the process ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2008One of Saturn's rings does housecleaning, soaking up material gushing from the fountains on Saturn's tiny ice moon Enceladus, according to new observations from the Cassini spacecraft. "Saturn's A-ring and Enceladus are separated by 100,000 kilometers (62,000 miles), yet there's a physical connection between the two," says Dr. William Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt ... more NASA Budget Request Strong On Earth Weak On Mars 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2008Two new Earth-observing satellites, a "flagship" mission to the outer planets, and several small lunar missions are among the highlights of the Administration's budget request for NASA for fiscal year 2009. At $17.6 billion the proposal represents a 1.8% increase over NASA's actual budget for 2008, and $4.44 billion, or just over a quarter of the total, is slated towards NASA's science missions. ... more Plan Bush For Outer Space Facing Critical Open Source Review 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2008Scientists and space policy experts say they will debate whether President George Bush's call for a return to the moon and voyage to Mars is feasible. Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent the last four years to design, build and test spacecraft in the program dubbed Constellation, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The program, however, has not caught the public's imagi ... more NASA Issues Environmental Impact Statement For Constellation 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2008NASA issued an environmental impact statement for the Constellation Program Jan. 10. NASA's Constellation Program is developing a space transportation system that is designed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement concludes that localized and global environmental impacts associated with implementing the program would be comparable to past or ... more
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