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India Hoping To Extend Mission Life Of Chandrayaan-I
Shillong (PTI) Jan 05, 2009Scientists can now extend the duration of India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I beyond its planned two-year period. The precise launch and lunar orbit insertion of Chandrayaan-I has given space scientists the leverage to extend the mission life of the spacecraft orbiting the moon at an altitude of 100 km. "The spacecraft has about 183 kg fuel onboard and we are looking at a two-y ... more Chandrayaan Dominates Day Two At Indian Science Congress 
Shillong, India (SPX) Jan 05, 2009Hundreds of children in Shillong watched with great enthusiasm and expectations as a film took them on a journey to the making of Chandrayaan-I here at the ongoing 96th Indian Science Congress, ISC -2009. The film was brought to them by none other than Prof. M.G.K. Menon, an emminent scientist and the Chancellor of North Eastern Hill University, NEHU. The show and the interaction there after was ... more To Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 30, 2008Scattered loosely around the beltline of Earth's nearest neighbor are six silent sentinels, testaments to America's first moon program. Standing all of 10 feet high and 30 feet wide (from footpad to footpad), each of these lunar module descent stages is more than a historical artifact that powered two Apollo astronauts to a safe landing on the moon's surface. They are unearthly reminders of the ... more NASA Instrument On Chandrayaan Finds Minerals On Moon 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Dec 29, 2008The moon mineralogy mapper (M3), a scientific instrument of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) onboard India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, found iron-bearing minerals on the lunar surface, the US space agency said Thursday. "The mapper spectrometer has beamed images of the Orientale Basin region of the moon, indicating abundance of iron-bearing minerals such as ... more 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 |
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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 Altair lunar lander design plans sought 
Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2008 U.S. space agency officials have released a draft request for design support for the Altair lunar lander vehicle, part of NASA's Constellation Program. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it's Altair lunar lander will deliver four astronauts to the moon's surface late in the next decade, fulfilling U.S. space exploration goals. "The Altair Conceptual Design ... more Titan's Volcanoes Give NASA Spacecraft Chilly Reception 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2008Data collected during several recent flybys of Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have put another arrow in the quiver of scientists who think the Saturnian moon contains active cryovolcanoes spewing a super-chilled liquid into its atmosphere. The information was released during a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Calif. ... more Papua New Guinea tidal waves displace 75,000: UN 
Geneva (AFP) Dec 16, 2008Papua New Guinea has been pummelled by non-stop tidal waves and unusually high tides that have forced 75,000 people from their homes this month, the United Nations said Tuesday. The autonomous PNG region of Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia were also affected by the high waves, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of ... more |
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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 Europa Does The Wave To Generate Heat 
Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 15, 2008One of the moons in our solar system that scientists think has the potential to harbor life may have a far more dynamic ocean than previously thought. If the moon Europa is tilted on its axis even slightly as it orbits the giant planet Jupiter, then Jupiter's gravitational pull could be creating powerful waves in Europa's ocean, according to Robert Tyler, an oceanographer with the ... more Biggest Full Moon Of The Year 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 11, 2008No, you can not see Neil Armstrong's footprint. But go ahead and look: The full Moon of Dec. 12th is the biggest and brightest full Moon of the year. It's no illusion. Some full Moons are genuinely larger than others and this Friday's is a whopper. Why? The Moon's orbit is an ellipse with one side 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other: diagram. In the language of astronomy, the ... more China's First Moon Probe Lowers Orbit For Further Exploration 
Beijing (XNA) Dec 10, 2008China's first moon probe, Chang'e-1,has successfully lowered its orbit from 200 kilometers away from the moon's surface to 100-kilometers. Scientists did this to conduct more specific observation, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) here on Tuesday. The satellite will remain at the new height before scientists lower its orbit again to gather information for a future ... more
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