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Four Chinese Lunar Landers MootedSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2010 For years, the official line on China's robot lunar program was a simple case of 1-2-3. There would be an orbiter (Chang'e 1) followed by a lander bearing a rover (Chang'e 2), and finally, a robot lander with a sample return rocket (Chang'e 3). Prior to late 2007, that was the plan regularly published in Chinese media sources. Shortly before the launch of Chang'e 1 in 2007, China's first lunar orbiter, the story began to change. China officially revealed that a back-up spacecraft had been assemble ... read more |
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2010Astrium, Europe's leading space company, has won a new competitive contract from the European Space Agency (ESA), as a follow-up to the Next Exploration Science and Technology (NEXT) study to develop a Lunar Lander. The Lunar Lander Phase B1 study will aim to complete the mission design for landing an automated vehicle near the south pole of the Moon. The new contract, valued at euros 6.5 ... more 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 20, 2010The moon is more geologically complex than previously thought, scientists report in two papers published in the journal Science. Their conclusion is based on data from the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon. The spacecraft orbits some 31 miles above the moon's surface. The new data ... more 
Paris (AFP) Sept 21, 2010The discovery of water on the Moon could affect a telescope that will be installed on China's first lunar lander, scheduled in 2013, a Chinese astronomer was quoted as saying on Tuesday. In September 2009, scientists announced they had found a watery dew covering parts of the Moon. In sunlight, the water vaporises and is then broken down into molecules of hydroxyl, a compound comprising one ... more |
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Moon's Craters Give New Clues To Early Solar System BombardmentProvidence RI (SPX) Sep 20, 2010 Take a cursory look at the moon, and it can resemble a pockmarked golf ball. The dimples and divots on its surface are testament that our satellite has withstood a barrage of impacts from comets, asteroids and other space matter throughout much of its history. Because the geological record of that pummeling remains largely intact, scientists have leaned on the moon to reconstruct the chaotic early days of the inner solar system. Now a team led by Brown University planetary geologists has produced ... read more |
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