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Less than a year after its launch, India's first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayan I, knocked off the country's endeavor to assert its power in space, after it lost radio contact with the mission control following a technical glitch believed to have been caused by a burst of sun spot activity. Though the state-run Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) hailed the moon mission a "great ... read more
Panaji, India (AFP) Aug 30, 2009The head of India's state-run space agency on Sunday hailed the country's first moon mission a success, despite losing contact with the spacecraft. "The mission was a great success," G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters in the state capital of Goa, Panaji, where a conference on low-budget space missions opens this week. Nair, who sai ... more
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2009Newly released images commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the Voyager flyby of Neptune's moon Triton on Aug. 24, 2009. Triton was the last solid object visited by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it headed toward the edges of our solar system. Triton, Neptune's largest moon, is one of the "coolest" objects in the solar system, literally, with a surface temperature of minus 235 degre ... more 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 29, 2009India's first moon mission, launched amid much fanfare last year, came to an abrupt end Saturday after controllers lost contact with the country's lunar craft, the national space agency said. India launched an unmanned satellite and put a probe on the moon's surface late last year in an event that the national space agency hoped would give the country international "brand recognition" in the ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009A discovery about the moon made in the 1960s is helping researchers unlock secrets about Earth's ocean today. By applying a method of calculating gravity that was first developed for the moon to data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, known as Grace, JPL researchers have found a way to measure the pressure at the bottom of the ocean. Just as knowing atmospheric pressure a ... more |
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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
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 17, 2009India has completed the design of Chandrayaan-2, its next mission to the moon - this time in collaboration with Russia - that would have a lander and rover which can collect samples of the lunar soil and analyse them and send back the data. "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here," Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation ... more  
Seoul, Korea (Yonhap) Aug 17, 2009South Korea's first space rocket is expected to mark a milestone in the country's budding space exploration ambitions, which the government says include building a lunar lander within the next 20 years. The Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), set to blast off Wednesday afternoon, has given the country first-hand experience in designing, building and testing powerful space rockets, the ... more |
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