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India's moon mission enters lunar space
Bangalore, India (AFP) Nov 4, 2008India's first unmanned moon mission entered lunar space early Tuesday as part of its final journey this week into the moon's orbit, a top space official said. The Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was launched with an Indian-built rocket on October 22 from the country's southeastern coast. "The operation to put Chandrayaan into lunar space went off very well," S. Satish, director of the Indian Sp ... more Germany's CESAR Crowned King Of Rovers In ESA's Robotics Challenge 
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 05, 2008A robot rover designed by a Bremen university team has won an ESA contest to retrieve soil samples from a lunar-style terrestrial crater. Eight student teams fielded rovers during the event, their progress monitored by an advanced 3-D viewer already flight-tested in space and planned for eventual deployment on the Moon. Craters surrounding the Moon's poles are a top 21st Century science ta ... more Russia To Aid India On Second Mission To Moon 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Nov 04, 2008With Chandrayaan-1 well on its way to moon without any glitch, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has now initiated a dialogue with its Russian counterpart of work-sharing of Chandrayaan-2 which features a lander and a rover. "Conceptual studies are in place. Overall configuration is finalised but the scientific experiments are yet to be finalised. It may take six months ... more Neil Armstrong Gives Papers To Purdue Libraries 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 04, 2008The personal story of the first person to land a craft on the moon and to step on its surface will live forever - in the Purdue University Libraries. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong will give his alma mater personal papers that will serve as historic archives and scholarly resources, university President France A. Cordova announced during an event in the Purdue Memorial Union prior to the ... more More Jets On Enceladus 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2008I'm very happy to report that we've just put one more major milestone in this remarkable adventure successfully behind us. Another bold dip over the south pole of Enceladus and another skillful setup for imaging the moon 'on the fly' have brought us another bounty of positively glorious views of one of the most fabulous places in the solar system. On this run, we have captured, by ... more |
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 31, 2008The fourth orbit-raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 was carried out on Wednesday which took the lunar spacecraft closer to the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation said here. During this operation at 0738 hours, the spacecraft's 440 Newton liquid engine was fired for about three minutes, the Bangalore-headquartered space agency said in a statement. "With this, Chandrayaan-1 ... more Cold Storage For Alien Organisms 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2008The Moon fascinates us. The only world other than Earth upon which humans have set foot, we know a remarkable amount about it, yet countless mysteries remain. One theory, presented at Europlanet's latest Planetary Science Congress by Joop Houtkooper from the University of Giessen, suggests that conditions in some lunar craters may be perfect for preserving samples of life from Earth and maybe ... more Cassini's Imaging Trick Yields Halloween Treats From Enceladus 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2008Following on the heels of the spectacularly successful 'skeet shoot' maneuver on August 11, Cassini will use the same technique to obtain high resolution images of the south polar region of Enceladus as it flies within 171 km of the icy moon on October 31. Earlier this month on October 9, Cassini came within 25 km (15 miles) of the surface and then flew through the icy plumes emanating ... more Titan Is Electric 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 29, 2008Many scientists believe that precursor molecules for life are more likely to form on planets or satellites where electrical storms occur in the atmosphere. Physicists at the University of Granada and the University of Valencia (Spain) have been analyzing data sent by the Huygens probe from Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and have proved "in an unequivocal way" that there is natural elec ... more |
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 27, 2008Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has entered deep space after crossing the 150,000 km (one and a half lakh km) distance mark from the Earth. This happened after the successful completion of the spacecraft's third orbit raising manoeuvre. During this manoeuvre which was initiated at 07:08 IST, the spacecraft's 440 Newton liquid engine was fired for about nine and a half minutes. With this, Chandray ... more NASA's Next Moon Mission Begins Thermal Vacuum Test 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 24, 2008NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space. The spacecraft, built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has been lifted into a four-story thermal vacuum chamber there for a test that will last approximately five weeks. Once sealed in the chamber, the satellite will undergo a s ... more Chandrayaan's Orbit Raised 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 24, 2008A day after its flawless launch, India's Chandrayaan-1 steadily made its journey to the moon after the first orbit-raising manoeuvre of the lunar spacecraft was today successfully performed by scientists. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the satellite's health was normal and it was on the right track. In the first of the five orbit raising manoeuvres, today's operation ... more ESA Closes In On The Origin Of Mars' Larger Moon 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 24, 2008European space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars'larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks almost certain to be a "rubble pile", rather than a single solid object. However, mysteries remain about where the rubble came from. Unlike Earth, with its single large moon, Mars plays host to two small ... more
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