spacefellowship.com - 7/2/2009
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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 Camera, or LROC, were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned ...
New moon view
sciencenews.org 9/24/2009 — Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter releases detailed images
NASA Returning to the Moon with First Lunar Launch in a Decade
spacefellowship.com 6/19/2009 — GREENBELT, Md., (NASA) — NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter launched at 5:32 p.m. EDT Thursday aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will relay more information about the lunar environment than any other previous mission to the ...
NASA Sets Lunar Spacecraft Launch Coverage Events
spacefellowship.com 6/6/2009 — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, spacecraft are set to launch together to the moon aboard an Atlas V rocket on June 17. Three launch opportunities from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ...
NASA Lunar Mission Successfully Enters Moon Orbit
spacefellowship.com 6/23/2009 — (NASA) - GREENBELT, Md. — 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., confirmed the spacecraft’s lunar orbit ...
NASA shoots the moon to track lunar spacecraft
physorg.com 9/24/2009 — 28 times per second, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center fire a laser that travels about 250,000 miles to hit the minivan-sized Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft moving at nearly 3,600 miles per hour as it orbits the moon.
Hubble's Universe
space.com 4/23/2009 — Space.com Space.com RSS Feeds Newsletters Become a Space Member Curious? Join our community! Members: Log In New? Register: Join Now! Restoring Hubble's Vision A key goal for NASA's last Hubble overhaul is to fix the space telescope's Advanced ...
NASA and Science Journal Information about Water on the Moon
nextbigfuture.com 9/26/2009 — These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. On the left is an image showing ...
NASA Details Plans for Lunar Exploration Robotic Missions
spacefellowship.com 5/22/2009 — MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., (NASA) - NASA’s return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth’s nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the upcoming missions of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, ...
Is NASA surrendering the Moon..?
cumbriansky.wordpress.com 5/2/2009 — The Internet’s space blogs and forums were almost aflame yesterday, in the aftermath of a story run by New Scientist that spread across the net faster than any strain of flu virus. The magazine’s website reported comments made by ...
NASA and International Space University Hold Moon Panel
spacefellowship.com 8/11/2009 — MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., (NASA) – A panel of robotics engineers, lunar scientists and spacecraft flight directors will gather at NASA’s Ames Research Center on Aug. 11, 2009 to discuss current scientific investigation being done of, on and from the moon.
WHO: Panelists will ...
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