News tagged with lunar orbit

S.Korea first rocket launch set for August 11

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Aug 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 7

South Korea has rescheduled its first space rocket launch from its soil to August 11 after repeatedly postponing it due to technical reasons, officials said Saturday.

Exploring the Moon, Discovering Earth

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Jul 20, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts set out on a daring adventure to explore the Moon. They ended up discovering their own planet.

Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar orbit

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Nov 10, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) lunar orbiter, was captured into orbit around the Moon on 8 November. One day later, the spacecraft performed a manoeuvre that ...

LRO lunar mission successfully enters moon orbit

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Jun 23, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 4

After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., ...

India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft reaches its final orbit

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Nov 13, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft successfully reached its final operational orbit around the Moon on 12 November 2008. The spacecraft is now circling the Moon at an altitude of about 100 km.

Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar transfer trajectory

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Nov 05, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (6) | 0

Yesterday, following a fifth orbit-raising manoeuvre, the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft successfully settled into a trajectory that will take it to the Moon.

CU-Boulder to build $6 million instrument for NASA lunar orbiter

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Jan 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface ...

Lunar Orbit is Divine for NASA Instrument

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Jun 24, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Diviner, an instrument that will make the first maps of the temperature on the surface of the lunar polar regions, entered the moon's orbit this morning (June 23) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Send Your Name to the Moon Aboard LRO

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May 01, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 3

NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft.

NASA's new moon probe sends back moon shots

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Jun 24, 2009 | 3.1 / 5 (8) | 5

(AP) -- NASA's new lunar probe launched less than a week ago has already sent back some shots of the moon.

Earth's Magnetic Field - A Hazard For Lunar Astronauts?

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Apr 16, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (13) | 3

For four days every month the Moon passes through the magnetic field of the Earth and parts of the lunar surface are charged with static electricity. Next week Dr Mike Hapgood of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ...

New NASA Missions to Reach Moon Tuesday, Sending Back Live Video

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Jun 22, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two NASA spacecraft will reach major mission milestones early Tuesday morning as they approach the moon -- one will send back live streaming imagery via the Internet as it swings by the moon, ...

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's first moon images available

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Jul 02, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...

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