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‘China to launch second lunar probe’
Beijing :: China | 3 days ago
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The Chang’e-2 mission will carry out tests in preparation for a lunar landing and an unmanned rover on the moon’s surface, expected to be launched before 2013, the report said...China’s first lunar probe was launched in October 2007, signalling the Asian...
Tags: China Daily, lunar probe, moon, Chang, China, Beijing, Environment, Unmanned spacecraft, Exploration of the Moon, Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, Chang'e, Spacecraft, Chang'e 1, Chang'e 2, Moon landing, Space Shuttle program, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, SELENE, Technology Internet, Luna programme, Shenzhou programme, Manned spacecraft, Orbiter, Asian space race, Chinese space program, Space Shuttle, Space exploration, Zhai Zhigang
Konstantin Feoktistov, a Soviet Spacecraft Engineer, Dies at 83
Moscow :: Russia | 8 days ago
Credibility Feoktistov, a Soviet engineer who was one of the first civilian astronauts and a prominent spacecraft designer, died on Saturday in Moscow, the Russian space agency said...Mr. Feoktistov, for whom a crater was named on the Moon , was also the only Soviet...
Tags: Konstantin Feoktistov, Mr. Feoktistov, Russian, feoktistov died, Moscow, space agency, civilian cosmonaut, Russia, Voskhod programme, Science and technology in the Soviet Union, Voskhod 1, Soviet space program, Soyuz, Russian Federal Space Agency, Astronaut, Human spaceflight, Feoktistov, Spacecraft, Soyuz programme
Iran: We will send missles to te heart of Tel-Aviv
Tehrān :: Iran | 8 days ago
Credibility IsraelNN.com) A senior member of Iran�s Revolutionary Guard threatened Israel that if Iran is attacked, she'll shoot missiles into the heart of Tel-Aviv.
Tags: Attorney General, IDF, Iran, Tehrān, Gaza War, Golani Brigade, Military Police Corps, Israel￢ﾀﾓGaza conflict, Politics, Business Finance, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Gaza Strip, Israel Defense Forces, War Conflict, Ometz, Menachem Mazuz, Israeli Jews, Benjamin Netanyahu, Brief, Netanyahu, Ashkenazi Jews, B'Tselem, Tier 1b, Air launch to orbit, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, Spacecraft, Mojave Desert, Space tourism, Manned spacecraft, Spaceplanes, Iranian Plateau, Western Asia
Cosmonaut says Russia falling behind in space race
Moscow :: Russia | 10 days ago
Credibility Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and will likely fall behind in the space race, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday. Efforts to build a successor to the 40-year old Soyuz spacecraft have dragged...
Tags: Russian, Mikhail Tyurin, space race, international space, space station, Russia, Moscow, Soyuz, Progress, Spacecraft, Soyuz programme, Manned spacecraft, Russian Federal Space Agency, Environment
The sands of Mars
Grass Valley :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility As on Earth, a change of Martian seasons brings a change in the weather … a change in the wind. On Earth, as winter gives way to spring and then summer, a “green wave” rolls northward across North America, as vegetation reclaims bare ground. As the seasons...
Tags: rover, mars, mars rover, Earth, Martian, Grass Valley, Spirit rover, Mars Pathfinder, Opportunity rover, Mars Exploration Rover, Spacecraft, Hospitality Recreation
Mercury mission clears key hurdle!
London :: United Kingdom | 10 days ago
Credibility Updated on Thursday, November 19, 2009, 19:05 IST London: An expensive mission, BepiColombo, to Mercury has been approved by European Space Agency (Esa). The mission is due for 2014 and was supposed to cost Esa 665 mn euros (£595m or $995m), a BBC report...
Tags: BepiColombo, European Space Agency, mercury mission, United Kingdom, London, Mercury, MESSENGER, Spacecraft, Orbiter, Mercury spacecraft, Spaceflight, Disaster Accident, Environment
Water on the moon
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility Shooting a rocket booster into the moon, followed four minutes later by an instrument-laden spacecraft, turned out to be a major letdown...But instead of the promised six-mile-high plume of dust and vapor, the debris rose only a mile and was invisible...
Tags: moon, Evansville, Mars, Rocket, Spacecraft, Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, Exploration of the Moon, LCROSS, Lunar ice, Environment, Technology Internet
Russian engines power American spacecraft
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 13 days ago
Credibility RT has traveled to the Russian plant that produces some of the most powerful engines in the world. From Russia across the Atlantic – and ultimately toward space: the rocket engines used for historic missions like the first spacecraft visit to Pluto are...
Tags: Russian, American, Energomash, rocket engines, Burkina Faso, Lon, SM-65 Atlas, Rocket, Spacecraft, Atlas, RD AMROSS, RD-180
Letters: Solar Journeys (2 Letters)
New York :: NY :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility Setting Sail Into Space, Propelled by Sunshine” (Nov. 10) transported me back to my early teen years in the late ’50s and early ’60s, eagerly reading a wildly futuristic short story in the Boy Scout magazine Boys’ Life about spaceships riding on solar...
Tags: New York, Spaceflight, Photonics, Solar sail, Pinta, Spacecraft, Christopher Columbus, Spacecraft propulsion, Interstellar travel
Hope grows for Earth base on the Moon
Here is some good news for all those who want to leave this terrible planet Earth and migrate to the Moon - there is no need to panic on the likely destruction of the World on 21st December 2012. NASA has confirmed the presence of ice on the Moon....
Tags: nasa, moon mssion, crater cabeus, spacecraft, Moon, allnews, Washington, Cabeus, Martian, Earthlings
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