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ISRO Eyes Lunar Landing In 2012 And Mars Mission In 2013
Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 29, 2008Buoyed by the success of Chandrayaan-I, Indian space scientists now plan to conquer new frontiers by sending a robot on moon in 2012 and a spacecraft to Mars the following year which will also see an Indian astronaut in space. Indian Space Research Organisation has lined up a slew of missions which also include landing a spacecraft on an asteroid and sending a probe to fly past a co ... more Next NASA Moon Mission Completes Major Milestone 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 29, 2008NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space LRO will experience after launch. This milestone concludes the orbiter's environmental test program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The orbiter will carry seven instruments to provide scientists with de ... more Raytheon's Chandrayaan-1 Sensor Successfully Activated 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 23, 2008Raytheon has received confirmation from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization that a water-detecting sensor system on the Chandrayaan-1 lunar-orbiting spacecraft has been activated and is fully functional. The assurance extends Raytheon's perfect 40-year record of start-up success. Data collected during an initial checkout will be used to calibrate the sensor. ... more Moon's Polar Craters Could Be The Place To Find Lunar Ice 
Durham, UK (SPX) Dec 23, 2008Scientists have discovered where they believe would be the best place to find ice on the moon. Astrophysicists, led by an expert at Durham University, say if frozen water exists then it is most likely to be found near to the moon's poles in craters that are permanently shaded from the sun. Their findings are based on a new computer analysis of data from the Lunar Prospector, a space probe ... more Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going To The Dark Side 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 19, 2008NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of "peek-a-boo." In this crisp Hubble image, Ganymede is shown just before it ducks behind the giant planet. Ganymede completes an orbit around Jupiter every seven days. Because Ganymede's orbit is tilted nearly edge-on to Earth, it routinely can be seen passing in front of and ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2008What lies beneath Europa's icy crust? Richard Greenberg has been pondering this question for 30-odd years. His new book, Unmasking Europa, describes his view that Europa's hidden ocean and the life forms it may support are not that far below the surface. A professor in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, Greenberg was one of the first to formulate how tidal for ... more Saturn's Dynamic Moon Enceladus Shows More Signs Of Activity 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2008The closer scientists look at Saturn's small moon Enceladus, the more they find evidence of an active world. The most recent flybys of Enceladus made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have provided new signs of ongoing changes on and around the moon. The latest high-resolution images of Enceladus show signs that the south polar surface changes over time. Close ... more Macao's University To Analyze Data From China's Moon Probe 
Macao (XNA) Dec 15, 2008The Macao University of Science and Technology (MUST) Friday unveiled its lab of applied research of moon and planetary exploration science, which will analyze the data obtained by China's first moon probe Chang'e-1. The lab is co-established by MUST and the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC). Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist for China's moon exploration ... more ISRO To Redesign Soyuz For Its Manned Space Mission 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Dec 15, 2008After the historic moon mission, India will redesign Russian space capsule Soyuz to send its astronauts on the country's maiden manned space mission. "We will be redesigning the Soyuz space capsule of the Russian agency for our mission," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair told PTI. ISRO signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Russian space agency Roskosmos ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2008Beneath the ice-covered surface of Jupiter's giant moon Europa, a vast ocean circles the globe. It is one of the few places in our solar system where, scientists believe, life may have taken hold. Various ideas have been proposed about how life could survive in that frigid environment. One suggestion is that hydrothermal vents, like those that dot the floor of Earth's oceans, are also pres ... more Goodyear And NASA Successfully Recreate Original Moon Tire 
Akron OH (SPX) Dec 05, 2008Goodyear Tire and Rubber and NASA have taken one small step backward to make one giant leap forward and help prepare for future missions to the moon and to Mars. Goodyear and the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) recently completed a jointly-funded project for the development and production of twelve replicates of the original wire-mesh moon tire used on the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle in ... more Omega Centauri - Glittering Giant Of The Southern Skies 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 03, 2008Omega Centauri is one of the finest jewels of the southern hemisphere night sky, as ESO's latest stunning image beautifully illustrates. Containing millions of stars, this globular cluster is located roughly 17 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus. Sparkling away at magnitude 3.7 and appearing nearly as large as the full moon on the southern night sky, Omega Centauri ... more PolyU Gears Up For Sino-Russian Interplanetary Space Mission 
Hong Kong (SPX) Dec 01, 2008The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is working closely with the well-established Russian Space Agency in designing a state-of-the-art space tool which will be carried onboard a Russian spacecraft for the Red Planet in the 2009 Sino-Russian Space Mission - the first strategic interplanetary collaboration between China and Russia. This historical mission also marks the first ... more
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