Epoxi Glues Deep Impact To Exosolar Planets
NASA's Deep Impact extended mission for their spacecraft is starting as an extended mission called Epoxi.
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Venus Gasses Surrender Info to VIRTIS
The European Space Agency's Venus Express has recently 'peeled back' the thick clouds around Venus and has been able to provide the most accurate and wide-ranging map of water vapour and other gases in the lower atmosphere to date.
Read MoreLockheed Martin’s Mooning MIT Maneuver
NASA has scheduled a new mission wherein the internal structure and gravitational forces of the Moon will be analyzed. This will, of course, require a spacecraft, and Lockheed Martin is only too happy to provide such for the project.
Read MoreLockheed Looks To New Lab For Orion Support
Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT] has opened a new space Exploration Development Laboratory (EDL) that will support NASA's Project Orion and Constellation Program.
Read MoreNASA & Others Wish To Dig Mars Dirt
Plans and recommendations to launch the first Mars mission and to bring soil samples back to Earth are being developed by NASA and an international team. The returned soil samples will increase understanding of either the useful, or harmful, Martian soil properties and should also congeal information regarding the possibilities of life on Mars.
Read MoreWater, Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop… Or Is There? Northrop’s Moon Mission
In 2009, a vehicle designed to impact the moon to determine if Moon water exists is planned, and Northrop Grumman's [NYSE:NOC] Space Technology sector is building the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
Read MoreWater, Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop… Or Is There? Northrop’s Moon Mission
In 2009, a mission to impact a space vehicle on the Moon's surface to determine if lunar water exists is planned—and Northrop Grumman's [NYSE:NOC] Space Technology sector is building the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
Read MoreAnother Player In the Moon Race
According to the South Korean government, the country will launch a lunar probe using an indigenous rocket in 2020. A development plan is being implemented in order for South Korea to become fully independent in building boosters and the unmanned probe itself.
Read MoreTo The Moon, For India & Russia
A cooperation agreement for joint lunar research and exploration has been signed between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). Mr. G Madhavan Nair, the Chairman of the ISRO, and Mr. A. Perminov, the Director of Roskosmos, signed the agreement on November 12th in Moscow.
Read MoreRosetta To Receive A Mighty, Mighty Push
The Earth’s gravity is going to be used to give Rosetta an exact boost in order for the comet chasing satellite to reach its ultimate destination. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) space vehicle will approach its close encounter with Earth, for the second time, on November 13th.
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