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| December 29, 2008 |  |
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 Bangalore, India (SPX) Dec 29, 2008 
The moon mineralogy mapper (M3), a scientific instrument of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) onboard India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, found iron-bearing minerals on the lunar surface, the US space agency said Thursday. "The mapper spectrometer has beamed images of the Orientale Basin region of the moon, indicating abundance of iron-bearing minerals such as ... read more 
Guiyang, China (XNA) Dec 29, 2008China officially started construction of a Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the largest in the world, in a remote southwest region on Friday. Preparation and research for the project took some 14 years. The dish-like telescope, as large as 30 football fields, will stand in a region of typical Karst depressions in Guizhou Province when it's done in 2013. ... more
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 29, 2008Buoyed by the success of Chandrayaan-I, Indian space scientists now plan to conquer new frontiers by sending a robot on moon in 2012 and a spacecraft to Mars the following year which will also see an Indian astronaut in space. Indian Space Research Organisation has lined up a slew of missions which also include landing a spacecraft on an asteroid and sending a probe to fly past a co ... more  
Dulles VA (SPX) Dec 29, 2008Orbital Sciences Corporation has been selected for a long-term contract by NASA to provide cargo transportation services to and from the International Space Station. Orbital stated that the contract, awarded under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program, has an expected value of approximately $1.9 billion for cargo transportatio ... more  
Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 27, 2008On December 26, the Messenger spacecraft will have traveled three billion miles since its launch, marking somewhat more than 60 percent of the probe's journey toward its destination to be inserted into orbit about Mercury. "That Messenger's odometer reading has reached another major milestone reminds us of the long and complex route that our spacecraft must follow," offers Principal Invest ... more  
Bangalore, India (SPX) Dec 29, 2008ISRO has crossed yet another major milestone by successfully conducting the Flight Acceptance Hot Test of Indigenous Cryogenic Engine at Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre's (LPSC) Mahendragiri facilities on December 18, 2008. This Cryogenic Engine is identified for the first indigenously developed Cryogenic Stage to be used in the next Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle mission (GSLV -D3). ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 23, 2008China has successfully orbited its third meteorological satellite, the Fengyun-2-06, the country's central television CCTV reported on Tuesday. The satellite was launched from the XiChang Satellite Launch Center, in southwest China at 08:54 a.m. local time (00:54 a.m. GMT) on board a Chang Zheng-3A carrier rocket. The Fengyun-2-06 weather satellite will collect meteorological data fr ... more 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 23, 2008Astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully completed their spacewalk on Tuesday, Russia's Mission Control said. The ISS commander American Michael Fincke and Russian engineer Yury Lonchakov, who arrived on the orbital station in October, closed the hatch to the Pirs docking station at 09:29 a.m. Moscow Time (06:29 GMT). The spacewalk, which was delayed by 37 minutes after las ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Dec 26, 2008Russia has begun to fulfil a 250-million-dollar contract to deliver surface-to-air missiles to seven countries including Libya, Syria and Venezuela, the Vedomosti business daily reported Friday. Russia will also deliver the S-125 Pechora-2M missile batteries to Egypt, Myanmar, Vietnam and Turkmenistan under the contract, the newspaper said, citing a source in the state-owned Russian Technolo ... more |
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