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Rocketdyne Lunar Lander Test Engine Validates Capabilities
West Palm Beach FL (SPX) Jan 27, 2009Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne's Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE) has successfully demonstrated critical capabilities required for NASA's Altair lunar lander. The engine performed with stable operation at the widest throttle range of any known high performance cryogenic engine in December during its third series of ground tests at the company's West Palm Beach, Fla., test facility. ... more Space Program Still Vital 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2009In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy told Congress we'd put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, he knew that the journey of discovery would yield more value than simply beating the Russians to the moon. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth," were the ... more Exploring The Eighth Continent 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2009In orbit around the moon, the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is making new discoveries about the chemical composition of our cosmic neighbor. This information will teach us more about the current lunar environment, and also help us better understand the formation of the moon from an asteroid collision with Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture ra ... more C1XS Catches First Glimpse Of X-ray From The Moon 
London UK (SPX) Jan 24, 2009The C1XS X-ray camera, jointly developed by the UK's STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has successfully detected its first X-ray signature from the Moon. This is the first step in its mission to reveal the origin and evolution of our Moon by mapping its surface composition. In orbit around the Moon on the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, C1XS ... more One Hundred Days Of Chandrayaan-1 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 23, 2009Hundred days after it was launched from Sriharikota on October 22, 60 scientists, including about 50 from the US and Europe, will conduct Chandrayaan-1's first high-level review on January 29. The scientists will compare notes on data their respective instruments have gathered and generated on Chandrayaan-1. European Space Agency, Bulgarian experts, Nasa and perhaps the Jet Propulsion ... more |
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New York NY (PTI) Jan 20, 2009India's first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, is providing scientists with the first look inside the moon's coldest and darkest craters, US space agency NASA has said. The NASA radar on board the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has sent back its first images which "show the floors of permanently-shadowed polar craters on the moon that aren't visible from Earth," NASA said in a press ... more NASA Radar On Indian Lunar Satellite Looks Deep Inside Shadowed Craters
Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2009Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters. The Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, has passed its initial in-flight tests and sent back its first data. The images show the floors of permanently-shadowed polar craters on the moon that aren't visible fro ... more ISRO Begins Work On Chandrayaan-II Project 
Chennai, India (PTI) Jan 19, 2009ISRO has begun working on the Rs 425-crore second unmanned moon mission to be launched by early 2012 following the success of Chandrayaan-I, a top ISRO official said here on Saturday. Chandrayaan-II will focus on soil and mineral exploration on the lunar surface with the help of a robotic device and send back data, Chandrayaan Project Director Mayilsamy Annadurai told reporters here. ... more Ancient Magnetic Field Shows That Moon Once Had A Dynamo In Its Core 
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 16, 2009The collection of rocks that the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon carried with it a riddle that has puzzled scientists since the early 1970s: What produced the magnetization found in many of those rocks? The longstanding puzzle has now been solved by researchers at MIT, who carried out the most detailed analysis ever of the oldest pristine roc ... more |
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Tucson, AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2009The University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey has been awarded a $3.16 million NASA grant to continue its search for near-Earth objects, or NEOs, through 2012. Under the direction of Stephen M. Larson of the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, the survey, known as CSS, has discovered about 70 percent of all NEOs found in the past three years. CSS tallied 565 NEO discoveries in 200 ... more Battle Of The Launches All Over Again 
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jan 14, 2009Here we go again! Everyone wants change. So, why not change our minds about how NASA gets to the International Space Station (ISS), the moon and beyond. Second guessing is the national pastime in Washington, DC. Not only do we second guess NASA decisions, but we do it often, we do it early and we do it late. It is a whole of career thing. In fact, there are some who make it a career. They ... more SwRI Has A CLOE About Lunar 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 14, 2009A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been selected by NASA to be a founding member of the agency's new Lunar Science Institute. The new Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution (CLOE) will help build fundamental knowledge of the history of the Moon and, by inference, the Earth and the rest of the Solar System. CLOE is one of seven teams selected by NASA as the first members o ... more Chandrayan Provides Pictures Of Lunar Surface 
Raipur, India (PTI) Jan 13, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair on Monday said the success of Chandrayan-1 mission has enabled the scientific community in the country to get complete picture of moon's surface and that too an extent of five metre resolution. "Though several moon missions were there in the past, no mission had provided pictures and data about the entire surface of the moo ... more
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