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NASA Offers 2 Million Dollar Lunar Lander Competition Prize
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2007During the X PRIZE Cup Oct. 27-28, NASA's Centennial Challenges Program will offer prizes totaling $2 million if competing teams successfully meet the requirements of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. The challenge will take place at Holloman Air Force Base, in Alamogordo, N.M. The purpose of the lunar lander challenge is to accelerate technology development leading to a commer ... more Chang'e-1 - New Mission To Moon Lifts Off 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 25, 2007A bold new mission to the Moon was launched today by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). Chang'e-1 blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan, atop a Long March 3A rocket. Chang'e-1 represents the first step in the Chinese ambition to land robotic explorers on the Moon before 2020. Chang'e-1 has four mission goals to accomplish. The first is to make three-dimensi ... more China's Lunar Probe Chief Commander: Scientific Exploration, Not Competition 
Xichang, China (XNA) Oct 25, 2007China will not embark on any lunar probe competition "in any form with any country" and will "share the results of its moon exploration with the whole world" in its pursuit of a policy of peaceful use of airspace, said a chief commander of the country's first lunar satellite project. "The decision on the lunar probe was made completely in accordance with China's own conditions, which is not mean ... more New CU-Boulder Study Confirms First-Known Belt Of Moonlets In Saturn Rings 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 25, 2007A narrow belt harboring moonlets as large as football stadiums discovered in Saturn's outermost ring probably resulted when a larger moon was shattered by a wayward asteroid or comet eons ago, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder study. Images taken by a camera onboard the NASA Cassini spacecraft revealed a series of eight propeller-shaped "wakes" in a thin belt of the outermost "A" ... more China Counting Down To Launch Of Lunar Probe 
Xichang, Sichuan (XNA) Oct 24, 2007China is busy preparing for the launch of its first moon orbiter which is likely to take place on Wednesday evening. The rocket is now on the launch pad and all staff are in position at the site. Chinaview.cn will live telecast the launch of the orbiter. The preparations for the launch of the circumlunar satellite named Chang'e I are almost complete, according to a spokesman from the Xichang Sat ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2007American plans now call for a return of humans to the Moon by around 2020. What can we hope to gain from such a program? It will be helpful to look back at our first lunar program, Apollo, and ask what we got from it, beside some 850 pounds of rock and soil - fascinating to geologists, but perhaps not to all taxpayers. I will try to summarize highlights of the payoff from Apollo. What was the "A ... more Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources Of Jets On Enceladus 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 19, 2007A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's "tiger stripe" fractures that straddle the moon's south polar region. Members of Cassini's imaging team used two years' worth of pictures of the geologically active moon to locate the sour ... more USC Concept Synthesis Studio Colonizes The Moon With Bugs 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2007A lucky nine graduate students, ranging from industry participants to foreign nationals, spent the evening presenting their concepts and projects for some of the parts needed to land objects and colonize with man the moon above. I say lucky in that the audience contained some great space minds who were wry with commentary. The Space Concepts Studio: Space Exploration Architectures event was ti ... more Japanese lunar probe finishes critical phase 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 9, 2007Japan's first lunar probe, launched more than a month ago, successfully finished its initial critical phase, the space agency said Sunday. "Both the Kaguya main satellite and its two baby satellites are in good health," the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in a statement. The Kaguya probe, named after a fairytale princess, released two baby satellites after being launched f ... more |
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San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2007Science Applications International announced that its subsidiary, Benham Companies, has been awarded a $51.4 million cost-plus- incentive-fee contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design, engineer and build two testing facilities. Both facilities will support development of the Orion spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station and t ... more Inspiring Views Celebrate Cassini's Diamond Anniversary 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2007Ten years ago today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft departed planet Earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and embarked on a seven-year long, circuitous journey of several billion miles across the solar system to the planet Saturn. To celebrate this special occasion, the mission's imaging team is releasing today a spate of captivating new images and movies of the ringed planet and some of its most photo ... more New Lakes Discovered On Titan 
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 15, 2007Newly assembled radar images from Cassini provide the best views of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on Saturn's moon Titan. A new radar image reveals that Titan's south polar region also has lakes. The southern region images were beamed back after a flyby on 2 October in which a prime goal was the hunt for lakes at the south pole. A new mosaic image comprised from seven Titan fly-bys over the las ... more Space Program Eyes Farther Frontiers 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 15, 2007Major breakthroughs are expected by 2010 in the country's ambitious space programs - from manned flights to the lunar probe - a senior space administrator said Thursday. Scientists are working toward astronaut space walks, and spacecraft rendezvous and docking procedures by the end of the decade, said Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration. The deep space exploration progra ... more
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