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Russia To Launch Unmanned Lander To Martian Moon In October 2011Moscow, Russia (XNA) Nov 23, 2010 The head of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov, said here on Sunday that the launch of an unmanned lander to one of the moon of Mars, Phobos, was scheduled for October 2011. The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will be sent to the surface of Phobos, and then return to the Earth with soil samples. A Chinese micro-satellite YH-1, the country's first Mars probe, will also be carried by the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to the Martian orbit, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. Th ... read more |
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NASA Awards Contract To Team FREDNET Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender Team FREDNET has been awarded a NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract at the maximum government purchase value of $10.01 million. As a recipient of this ILDD contract, Team FREDN ... more | .. |
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 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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 NASA Thruster Test Aids Future Robotic Lander's Ability To Land Safely NASA'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 successfu ... more | .. |
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