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Boeing Submits Proposals For Ares V Rocket Design Support
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 19, 2009Boeing has announced that its Space Exploration division has submitted proposals to NASA for the Ares V Phase 1 Design Support Contracts. Boeing submitted proposals for design support of the Ares V cargo launch vehicle's payload shroud, which will protect the Altair lunar lander during launch; the Earth-departure stage; the core stage, a liquid-fueled central booster element; and avionics ... more NASA Mission To Seek Water Ice On Moon Heads To Florida For Launch 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 19, 2009NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, is en route from Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, Calif., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for a spring launch. The satellite's primary mission is to search for water ice on the moon in a permanently shadowed crater near one of the lunar poles. LCROSS is a low-cost, accelerated ... more ISRO To Launch A Breakthrough Satellite 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 18, 2009After its successful unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-I, Indian Space Research Organisation is poised to launch a "breakthrough" remote sensing satellite RISAT that can take pictures of earth during night and even see through clouds and fog. Bangalore-headquartered ISRO is targeting a March last week date for launching the 1,780-kg Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT) along with ANUSAT ... more Detailed map shows dry Moon 
Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2009A new detailed map of the Moon released Thursday shows the Earth's satellite holds very little water and reveals never-before seen craters at the poles, an international research team said. "The surface can tell us a lot about what's happening inside the Moon, but until now mapping has been very limited," C.K Shum, professor of Earth sciences at Ohio State University, said in the February 13 ... more Life Above And Below 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2009Seth Shostak: Our next speaker is T.C. Onstott. He is a Princeton University geochemist, and one of Time magazine's "100 most influential people of 2008." T.C. Onstott: I'll be talking about Subsurface World. Jupiter's moon Europa is one of those places within our solar system where we might expect to find Subsurface World. By analyzing the DNA within a bacterium, we can figure out ... more |
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London, UK (PTI) Feb 05, 2009Scientists have discovered the oldest lunar mineral 'zircon', nearly 4.42 billion years old, a finding, which they claim sheds important light on the early formation of the moon's surface. An international team, led by the Curtin University of Technology, has analysed the mineral that they discovered from lunar samples provided by US space agency NASA, in a new study published in the ... more East Asia Builds World's Largest Radio Telescope Network 
Shanghai, China (XNA) Feb 03, 2009East Asian astronomers are building the world's largest radio telescope array to see the deep into the galaxy and black holes and more accurately determine the orbits of lunar probes such as China's Chang'e-1. The array, called the East Asia Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) consortium, consists of 19 radio telescopes from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) that cover an a ... more NASA Selects Teams For Moon Impact Observation Campaign 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2009NASA has selected four teams to observe the impact of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, with the lunar surface during the mission's search for water ice on the moon. The LCROSS mission is a small companion mission to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in spring 2009. Instruments aboard the satellite are design ... more ISRO-Built Satellite Fails After Five Weeks 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 02, 2009The very first communications satellite sold by the Indian Space Research Organization to the European operator Eutelsat has failed abruptly after five weeks in orbit, in a setback to ISRO which just celebrated the 100th day of its successful moon mission. 'Scientists at ISRO are analyzing the anomaly in the hope of reviving the satellite,' ISRO spokesman S. Satish told IANS. ... more |
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Columbia MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2009The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is proud to announce the selection for funding of four proposals for scientific activities to be carried out under the LCROSS Observation Campaign. The Observation Campaign is part of the NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) project which is designed to verify the presence or absence of water ice on the Moon. Sche ... more Cosmochemists Share Results Of Cometary Dust Analysis 
Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 28, 2009University cosmochemists Lawrence Grossman and Steven Simon have studied scores of meteorites during their careers, with a few Apollo lunar samples thrown in for good measure. But until 2006, they had never before examined a verified sample of a comet. Much to their surprise, what they found looked a lot like components of some of the meteorites in their research collection. "The thi ... more 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
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