Europe's Moon Mission Ends with a Bang
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Early this morning, a small flash illuminated the surface of the Moon as the European Space Agencyâs SMART-1 spacecraft impacted onto the lunar soil, in the âLake of Excellenceâ region.
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon, the unmanned exploratory probe SMART-1, has been safely placed in lunar orbit after a voyage of more than 13 months, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Tuesday.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - The European-built space probe  Huygens landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Friday,  sending back indications it was alive and well and leaving  scientists eager for its first research data.
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Europe's first moon probe signed off its   mission on schedule by crashing into the lunar surface on   Sunday, completing a project scientists hope will tell them   more about the moon's origin.
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The smooth landing concluded a mission that marked NASAÂs resumption of construction on the International Space Station.
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In the night of 15-16 November, ESA&#39;s Smart-1 space probe is scheduled to enter into an orbit around the Moon. This operation is not without danger, as it means traversing an area in which the gravitational
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Europe's first mission to the moon got a scare, but ground controllers made a last-minute course correction early Saturday that kept the craft from hitting the surface earlier than planned.
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Scientists have successfully measured the wind speeds which pummelled Huygens during its descent to Titan
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon, SMART-1, has been placed in orbit around the moon. European Space Agency (ESA) science director David Southwood says the moon&#39;s gravity captured the probe Monday.
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The launch of the Columbus science laboratory marks a key moment in space exploration for Europe.
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The SMART-1 probe has entered its lunar orbit, and the history books as the first European mission to have done so. Professor David Southwood, director of science for the European Space Agency (ESA), said: &quot;Europe
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Europe will end its first mission to the Moon by crashing its spacecraft into the lunar surface.
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Space engineers sent Europe&#39;s Huygens probe sweeping towards Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan, yesterday. Officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said they had received a signal confirming
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  DARMSTADT, Germany  Europe's first spacecraft to the moon smashed into a volcanic plain as planned Sunday, signaling in a bright flash the end of a successful mission to test a new propulsion system and navigation technology for flights to other planets.
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Europe's first mission to the moon is due to crash-land in a cloud of dust and rock Sunday, ending a three-year voyage that gathered data about the lunar surface and tested a new engine intended to propel future spacecraft to Mercury and other planets.
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DARMSTADT, Germany -- Pictures snapped by the Titan probe and a low, whooshing sound picked up by an on-board microphone drew gasps and applause from scientists yesterday, as the mission to Saturn's moon continued its breathtaking revelations from more than 900 million miles across the solar system.
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Cassini-Huygens, the joint NASA/ESA/ASI space mission has successfully made a close encounter with Saturnâs moon, Titan. This was confirmed in the early hours of this morning as the first information and