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Moon Express Enters $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE CompetitionSan Francisco CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2010 Moon Express has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks. Team MoonEx, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, is among 24 teams from a dozen countries that are competing for their share of the $30 million prize purse. Moon Express is also among six ... read more |
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 Moon's 'treasure chest' includes silver : study Lunar soil is richer than previously thought, with traces of silver among the complex mix of elements and compounds found within one of the moon's craters, according to a study published Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Cassini Clocks Nine Moons In 62 Hours Taking a long-weekend road trip, NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully glided near nine Saturnian moons, sending back a stream of raw images as mementos of its adrenaline-fueled expedition. The spa ... more | .. |
NASA to buy private moon data NASA has signed contracts with U.S. six teams competing to design, build and launch private moon probes to purchase their lunar data, agency officials say. The six teams are competing in the Goog ... more | .. |
  The Earth Is Not Round Some 50 years ago, when the first artificial satellite was launched, it was generally thought the Earth was spherical in shape. Of course, the existence of surface anomalies such as mountains, valle ... more | .. |
 NASA Awards Contracts For Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data NASA has awarded Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contracts to six companies for the purchase of technical data resulting from industry efforts to develop vehicle capabilities and demonst ... more |
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 12, 2010The mysteries surrounding the mission of China's Chang'e 2 moon probe are gradually being solved. Prior to the launch, China was exceptionally shy about revealing many details of the mission, including the launch vehicle. This led some analysts, including the author, to wonder what was being left out of the public domain. Thankfully, we now know more about the souped-up launch and the cour ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 11, 2010NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., collaborated with NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne in Canoga Park, Calif., to successfully complete a series of thruster tests at the White Sands test facility. The test will aid in maneuvering and landing the next generation of robotic lunar landers that could be used to explore ... more 
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 07, 2010A chief designer with China's second lunar probe project has said that the country's lunar pursuit, while lagging behind Russia and the United States for more than 40 years, is still important because space exploration is part of the country's responsibility towards mankind. "The most fundamental task for human beings' space exploration is to research on human origins and find a way for ma ... more |
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Europa's Hidden Ice ChemistryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 05, 2010 The frigid ice of Jupiter's moon Europa may be hiding more than a presumed ocean: it is likely the scene of some unexpectedly fast chemistry between water and sulfur dioxide at extremely cold temperatures. Although these molecules react easily as liquids-they are well-known ingredients of acid rain-Mark Loeffler and Reggie Hudson at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., now report that they react as ices with surprising speed and high yield at temperatures hundreds of degrees below ... read more |
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