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Space Systems Loral To Supply Lunar Mission Propulsion SystemPalo Alto, CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2010 Space 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 ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 30, 2009Though there are no plans to investigate whether Saturn's moon Titan has a Santa Claus, NASA's Cassini zoomed close to Titan's north pole this week. The flyby, which brings Cassini to within about 960 kilometers (600 miles) of the Titan surface at 82 degrees north latitude, will take place the evening of Dec. 27 Pacific time, or shortly after midnight Universal Time on Dec. 28. The e ... more  
Los Angeles (SPX) Dec 30, 2009As twilight descends on New Year's Eve of 2009, a full Moon will rise in the eastern sky for the second time this month (the first time came on December 2nd). Many people use the expression "once in a blue Moon" to mean something that occurs rarely, and you might be tempted to call December 31st's full Moon a "Blue Moon" too. While the former meaning can be traced back centuries, the latter definition is much newer - and it's wrong! "In modern usage, the second full Moon in a month has come to be called a 'Blue Moon.' But it's not!" says Kelly Beatty, Senior Contributing Editor for Sky and Telescope magazine. "This colorful term is actually a calendrical goof that worked its way into the pages of Sky and Telescope back in March 1946, and it spread to the world from there." ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 30, 2009NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The final project selected in mid-2011 may provide a better understanding of Earth's formation or perhaps the origin of life on our planet. The proposed missions would probe the atmosphere and crust of Venus; return a piece of a near-Earth asteroid for analysis; or ... more |
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New Delhi, India (PTI) Dec 22, 2009The next moon mission - Chandrayaan-II - will use advanced technologies, the Rajya Sabha was told today. The next moon mission will have an orbiter, a lander and rovers which use advanced technologies, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said in a written reply. Concepts of low-cost planetary mission have been discussed at an international conference recently in Goa ... more 
Fayetteville AK (SPX) Dec 23, 2009A University of Arkansas scientist has received funding from NASA to simulate conditions found on Saturn's moon Titan to help better understand the origins of the liquids found on its surface and in its atmosphere. Vincent Chevrier, assistant research professor in the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, conducted preliminary studies in a planetary environmental simulation ... more  
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 22, 2009In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. With NASA's Kepler mission showing the potential to detect Earth-sized objects, habitable moons may soon become science fact. If we find them nearby, a new paper by Smithsonian ... more |
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