News tagged with lunar lander
'Look Ma, No Parachute!' Lunar Lander Floats on Electric-blue Jets
How do you fly on a world with no atmosphere? Wings won't work and neither do propellers. And don't even try that parachute!
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 15, 2009 |
3.9 / 5 (15) |
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Four Out of Six Apollos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Their names are now part of exploration history - Sea of Tranquility, Ocean of Storms, Frau Mauro, Hadley Rille, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow. They are the sites on the lunar surface visited ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 24, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (6) |
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Lunar lander firing up for touchdown
Europe’s ambition of touching down at the Moon’s south pole by 2018 has been boosted by recent test firings of the craft’s thrusters. The robot lander will prove new techniques for sending humans ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 08, 2012 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
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Fly us to the Moon... south pole to be precise
(PhysOrg.com) -- The south polar region of the Moon, with dark craters and high ridges, is a world away from the relatively smooth terrain visited by Apollo astronauts four decades ago. This rugged moonscape ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2010 |
5 / 5 (4) |
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NASA and X Prize Announce Winners of Lunar Lander Challenge
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will award $1.65 million in prize money Thursday to a pair of innovative aerospace companies that successfully simulated landing a spacecraft on the moon and lifting off again.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 03, 2009 |
3.8 / 5 (5) |
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Looking at the volatile side of the Moon
Four decades after the first Moon landing, our only natural satellite remains a fascinating enigma. Specialists from Europe and the US have been looking at ESA’s proposed Lunar Lander mission to find ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 01, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (4) |
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Rockets vie in simulated lunar landing contest
(AP) -- A privately built rocket vying for NASA prize money lifted off in the Mojave Desert and flew half of a simulated lunar lander mission Wednesday before an engine problem forced its developers to call ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
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Water on Moon is bad news for China's lunar telescope
The discovery of water on the Moon could affect a telescope that will be installed on China's first lunar lander, scheduled in 2013, a Chinese astronomer was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 20, 2010 |
4 / 5 (4) |
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NASA's next generation robotic lander gets sideways during test (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- During a recent test at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the robotic lander prototype, known as Mighty Eagle, performed a hover test flying up to three feet and then translated, or ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
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The mission to find the missing lunar module
Where is the Apollo 10 Lunar lander module? It’s somewhere out there — orbiting the Sun — and there’s a new initiative to try and find it!
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
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NASA may delay 2020 moon launch
NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are quietly being revised and are in danger of slipping past 2020.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
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LADEE Mission to Study the Moon's Fragile Atmosphere
Right now, the Moon is a ghost town. Nothing stirs. Here and there, an abandoned Apollo rover — or the dusty base of a lunar lander — linger as silent testimony to past human activity. But these days, only ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
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New propulsion system for robotic lander prototype tested by NASA
NASA's Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has completed a series of hot fire tests and taken delivery of a new propulsion system for integration into ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 06, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
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UA eyes $30 million Google Lunar X prize
In the second article [first story] about the research of UA space systems engineer Roberto Furfaro, we look at his work with Moon Express, a privately funded lunar transportation company that plans a pinpoin ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
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