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Chandrayaan-I Passes Critical Endurance Test
Bangalore, India (PTI) Sep 12, 2008The lunar craft to be used in India's first unmanned mission to the Moon--Chandrayaan-I-- successfully passed a test for its endurance in harsh space environment crossing a major milestone in preparation for the odyssey expected some time next month. The two-week vacuum test to evaluate the thermal design of the spacecraft and to verify its endurance in the harsh environment of space has ... more NASA Developing Fission Surface Power Technology 
Cleveland OH (SPX) Sep 11, 2008NASA astronauts will need power sources when they return to the moon and establish a lunar outpost. NASA engineers are exploring the possibility of nuclear fission to provide the necessary power and taking initial steps toward a non-nuclear technology demonstration of this type of system. A fission surface power system on the moon has the potential to generate a steady 40 kilowatts of ... more Cassini Images Ring Arcs Among Saturn's Moons 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2008NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a faint, partial ring orbiting with one small moon of Saturn, and has confirmed the presence of another partial ring orbiting with a second moon. This is further evidence that most of the planet's small, inner moons orbit within partial or complete rings. Recent Cassini images show material, called ring arcs, extending ahead of and behind the small ... more Robot Scout Will Test New Lunar Landing Techniques For Future Explorers 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 05, 2008The first attempt to land humans on the moon -- Apollo 11 -- was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw that their ship's computer was taking them directly into a crater the size of a football field, strewn with SUV-sized boulders. They ... more Amateur Astronomers See Perseids Hit The Moon 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 03, 2008There's more than one way to watch a meteor shower. One, the old-fashioned way: Find a dark place with starry skies and count the meteors streaking overhead. Two, the new way: Find a dark place with starry skies and then completely ignore the meteors. Instead, watch the Moon. That's where the explosions are. On August 9th, a pair of amateur astronomers on opposite sides of the United ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2008As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer and more demanding than previous space flights. Psychologists outlined these mental health challenges at the American Psychological Association's 116th Annual Convention, and introduced a new interactive computer program ... more Chandrayaan-I Set For Launch Later This Year: Kasturirangan 
New Delhi, China (PTI) Aug 21, 2008India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I is set for a late October or an early December launch, noted space scientist and former ISRO chairman Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan said. The spacecraft, which will carry five Indian and six international experiments, has been assembled and undergoing a series of tests, he said. The unmanned mission, which will orbit the moon for two years, is ... more NASA Seeks Input For Commercial Lunar Communications And Navigation 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2008NASA issued a Request for Information, or RFI, on Monday to gauge interest and solicit ideas from private companies in providing communications and navigation services that would support the development of exploration, scientific and commercial capabilities on the moon over the next 25 years. NASA plans to establish science stations on the lunar surface beginning as early as 2013, followed ... more Cracking The Question Of Alien Life 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2008With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing the entire surface, the environment on Jupiter's moon Europa is about as alien as they come. So are the enormous forces behind the surface display, namely an ocean beneath the ice nine times deeper than Earth's deepest ocean trench and ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2008In a feat of interplanetary sharpshooting, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pinpointed precisely where the icy jets erupt from the surface of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus. New carefully targeted pictures reveal exquisite details in the prominent south polar "tiger stripe" fractures from which the jets emanate. The images show the fractures are about 300 meters (980 feet) deep, ... more Psychologists Show New Ways To Deal With Health Challenges In Space 
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 15, 2008As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and then on to Mars, psychologists are exploring the challenges astronauts will face on missions that will be much longer and more demanding than previous space flights. Psychologists outlined these mental health challenges Thursday at the American Psychological Association's 116th Annual Convention, and introduced a new interactive computer ... more Cassini Begins Transmitting Data From Enceladus Flyby 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2008Shorty after 9:03 p.m. Pacific Time, the Cassini spacecraft began sending data to Earth following a close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus. During closest approach, Cassini successfully passed only 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surface of the tiny moon. Cassini's signal was picked up by the Deep Space Network station in Canberra, Australia, and relayed to the Cassini mission control a ... more A Flash Of Insight: LCROSS Mission Update 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 12, 2008There are places on the Moon where the sun hasn't shined for millions of years. Dark polar craters too deep for sunlight to penetrate are luna incognita, the realm of the unknown, and in their inky depths, researchers believe, may lie a treasure of great value. NASA is about to light one up. Sometime between May and August 2009, depending on launch dates, the booster stage for NASA's ... more
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