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 White Sands NM (SPX) Aug 20, 2009 
Anyone who's vacationed in the mountains or lived on a farm knows that it's hard to get good internet access or a strong cell phone signal in a remote area. Communicating across great distances has always been a challenge. So when NASA engineers designed the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), they knew it would need an extraordinary communications system. Over the next year, the LRO, NASA ... read more
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2009For decades, microsatellites have been a boon to spaceflight. A small satellite can be built and launched fairly cheaply, sometimes hitching a ride for free aboard a large satellite launch. So far, microsatellites have not ventured very far into space. Could one go all the way to the Moon? Amateur groups have speculated on this possibility for years, but none have actually built a bird and ... more
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New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Aug 18, 2009India and Russia have finished the design of a second unmanned lunar orbiter to be sent to the Moon in 2011-2012, the Indian Express newspaper said on Monday. The paper quoted Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as saying in Bangalore on Sunday: "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here." ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 17, 2009Forty years after man landed on the moon, NASA plans to retire the Space Shuttle in 2010. It will be five years before NASA has a vehicle ready to carry astronauts back into space, which has some concerned about the future of the space program. Kane Farabaugh sat down with Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell to discuss what is in store for space exploration. When astronaut Jim Lovell aimed for the ... more 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 13, 2009 Germany is debating whether to launch an unmanned mission to the moon to help German companies secure expertise in the aerospace sector. "A German moon landing is possible during the course of the next decade, around 2015," Peter Hintze, state secretary for economy and technology, on Wednesday told public broadcaster ZDF. Such a mission would cost at least $2.2 billion, but ... more |
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Mauna Kea hi (SPX) Aug 14, 2009A paper that describes the first storm observed in the tropical latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan will be published in the journal Nature on August 13. The rain from large clouds such as these is actually liquid methane and may be responsible for forming the channels and other features near the equator observed by the Huygens probe in 2005. The huge storm, observed with the NASA Infrared ... more 
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Aug 13, 2009Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two pieces of research to be presented at the XXVII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Wind, rain, volcanoes, tectonics and other Earth-like processes all sculpt features on Titan's complex ... more 
Berlin (AFP) Aug 12, 2009An unmanned German mission to the moon is plausible by the middle of the next decade, the official in charge of space flight said on Wednesday, despite the financial crisis battering the country. "A German moon-landing is possible during the course of the next decade, around 2015," Peter Hintze, state secretary for economy and technology, told ZDF television. Such a mission would cost ar ... more |
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