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'NASA, ESA Want To Be Part Of Chandrayaan-II Mission' Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 08, 2010 
NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) want to be part of Chandrayaan-II, the next Indian mission to Moon, by sending their instruments, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said here today.
Replying to a query whether NASA and ESA have sent proposals to ISRO to be part of Chandrayaan-II, expected in 2012 or 2013, by sending their instruments, Radhakrishnan told reporters, "They are all there actua ... read moreMoon Exploration is Not Dead 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 02, 2010It's clear by now that America's grand plans for returning astronauts to the Moon have been quashed, at least in the short term. The Constellation program, originally created to land astronauts there by 2020, is no more. But that doesn't mean that astronauts will not return in the future, nor does it mean that lunar exploration will cease in the meantime. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbite ... more
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China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Obama to propose abandoning US return to Moon: report
Washington (AFP) Jan 29, 2010President Barack Obama's 2011 budget, to be submitted to Congress Monday, will propose abandoning a program to return US astronauts to the Moon, two Florida newspapers said Thursday. Citing administration and NASA officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the reports said the White House would call on the US space agency to focus on other programs, including the development of comme ... more India To Launch Chandrayaan-2 By 2013 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 29, 2010Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief K. Radhakrishnan on Wednesday said the configuration for the new moon mission 'Chandrayaan-2' is being finalized and added that it would be launched by 2013. Chandrayaan-2, which will be a joint effort between ISRO and Russia, will consist of a lander and a rover for a soft land on moon. The rover will move on the surface of the moon an ... more Seed Bank For The Moon 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 27, 2010In 2009, it was found that some polar regions of the Moon are the coldest places in the solar system. It's even colder there than distant, frozen Pluto! Some craters are permanently blocked from sunlight, and apparently lack sources of heat from underground. These areas aren't just cold at certain times. They never get warm at all. The Moon's cold traps have been celebrated for another rea ... more ISRO Has Received 'Several' Payload Proposals For Chandrayaan-II 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 28, 2010Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would finalise in a couple of months the payloads from the international community to be carried on Chandrayaan-II moon mission, the space agency's chairman K Radhakrishnan has said. "Yes, we have and in a couple of months we would finalise it. There are several of them (proposals received from different countries)," he told reporters here. The Ch ... more |
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Space Systems Loral To Supply Lunar Mission Propulsion System
Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2010Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) and the leading provider of commercial satellites, has announced that it has been selected to provide a propulsion system to NASA Ames Research Center for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft. The contract demonstrates NASA's success in leveraging the capability of commerci ... more India Aims For Chandrayaan-II Lunar Mission In 2013 
Tiruchi, India (PTI) Jan 05, 2010The launch of India's next moon mission, Chandrayaan-II, will be in the first quarter of 2013 as per schedule, its project head said here on Sunday. The project is shaping up as per schedule, Mylswamy Annadurai, project director, Chandrayaan-I and II of the Indian Space Research Organization, told reporters. Chandrayaan II, the second lunar mission, a four-year project under Indo-Russian collaboration, is being executed by ISRO after the success of Chandrayaan I. ... more Lava tube could house moon colony 
Tokyo (UPI) Jan 2, 2009 A deep lava tube discovered on the moon could shield human colonists from harsh temperatures and meteorites, Japanese scientists said. The tube, in the Marius Hills on the moon's near side, is believed to be 213-feet wide and more than 260-feet deep, said Junichi Haruyama, a researcher with the Japanese space agency JAXA. The tube was discovered through images taken by the Japanese moon ... more Moon Mission In Running For Next Big Space Venture 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jan 04, 2010Nearly 40 years after the Apollo astronauts first brought samples of the Moon to Earth for study, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis are leading an effort to return to the Moon for samples that could unlock secrets of the early Solar System. Known as MoonRise, the proposed Moon mission is one of three finalists now bidding to become NASA's next big space science venture, a ... more |
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