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Study Shows Robots Could Prepare Lunar Landing Pad
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 02, 2009Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical assistance from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. Astrobotic Technology and Carnegie Mellon researchers analyzed mission requirements and developed the design for an innovative new type of ... more Otherworldly Solar Eclipse 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 27, 2009For the first time, a spacecraft from Earth has captured hi-resolution images of a solar eclipse while orbiting another world. Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter accomplished the feat on Feb. 9, 2009, when the Sun, Earth and Moon lined up in a nearly perfect row. From Kaguya's point of view, Earth moved in front of the Sun, producing an otherworldly "diamond-ring" eclipse. The sequence beg ... more NASA Goddard Brings The Moon To Earth 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2009This winter the television production team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. shrank the moon down to a six-foot globe and put it on display in their Visitor Center. They've made a new, fully spherical short film called "Return to the Moon". Designed expressly for the Science On a Sphere platform, it opens in science museums and elsewhere around the country on February 27. ... more Lunar Habitat Power System Begins Important Tests 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 23, 2009NASA today begins testing elements of a power system that is a potential candidate to provide the energy needed to support a human outpost on the moon. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has a one-of-a-kind test facility that enables engineers to simulate the nuclear power process of heat transfer from a reactor to a power converter - without using nuclear materials. ... more 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 |
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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 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Shipped To Florida 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 12, 2009NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft was loaded on a truck Wednesday to begin its two-day journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for April 24. The spacecraft was built by engineers at Goddard, where it recently completed two months of tests in a thermal vacuum chamber. During its time in the chamber, the spacecraft was subjected to hot and ... more Astronomers Will Train MMT Telescope On Moon During 2009 Impact 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2009Astronomers will use the powerful University of Arizona/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater on the moon later this year. Water is a crucial resource on the moon because it would not be practical to transport to space the amount of water needed for human and exploration needs. NASA ... more ISRO 2009 Exhibition Kicks Off 
Davanagere (PTI)Feb 06, 2009ISRO's public relations officer B R Guruprasad demonstrated the prototype component models that were used in Chandrayaan-I to Sri Taralabalu pontiff Shivamurthy Shivacharya maha swamiji, at BIET college in Davanagere on Tuesday evening. The Sanehalli mutt pontiff Sri Panditharadhya swamiji, along with a team of ISRO scientists including Chandrayaan-I project director Annadurai, S K Shivaku ... more |
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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 Roscosmos Eyes New Station 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2009Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will propose to the government the construction of a low-orbit space station to support future exploration of the Moon and Mars, an agency official said Thursday. "We will soon propose to our government a project to construct a low-orbit complex, which could serve as a foundation for the implementation of the lunar program and later on - the Mars ... more Moon Impactor Probe Silenced Sceptics 
New Delhi (PTI) Jan 29, 2009Scientists were a divided lot over sending onboard Chandrayaan-I the Moon Impactor Probe which later produced excellent pictures of the earth's natural satellite. The Moon Impactor Probe (MIP), which crashed onto the lunar surface on November 14, was included as one of the 11 payloads of Chandrayaan-I at the suggestion of the then President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. However, some scientist ... more NASA Goddard To Investigate The Stormy Moon 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2009NASA's Lunar Science Institute selected a proposal to investigate the sun's influence on the moon submitted by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The basic science research supports NASA's human exploration of the moon. "Many people think of the moon as dead, but if you look with a different pair of glasses - at the atomic level - it is very active," said Dr. William Farr ... more
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