European probe SMART-1 crashes onto Moon
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Europe's first probe to the Moon, SMART-1, crashed onto the lunar surface as scheduled at 7.42 am (0542 GMT) Sunday, ending a successful 16-month mission, the European Space Agency announced.
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Europe&#39;s first Moon probe, SMART-1, was put into its lunar orbit on Monday evening as planned, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced here Tuesday.
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SMART-1, the European Space Agency craft currently in orbit around the moon, makes use of a technology that was pure science fiction until the 1960s - the ion drive.
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Urgent: European probe SMART-1 orbiter crashes into moon's surface    PARIS, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The SMART-1 orbiter of the European Space Agency, a probe launched aboard an Aariane-5 rocket in September 2003, on Sunday crashed into the moon's surface.
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European spacecraft Smart is set to enter into orbit around the Moon on Monday.
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European Space Agency -- One year after its launch on 27 September 2003, the SMART-1 spacecraft is in excellent health and preparing for the manoeuvres that will bring it into orbit around the Moon mid-November.     The first mission phase, the aim of which was to test several innovative technologies, has been successfully completed...
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Deep impact? Europe's first lunar probe made its crash landing yesterday in the Moon's Lake of Excellence region at 0542 GMT (0642 BST).â¦
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon has arrived and begun orbiting, 14 months after its launch from French Guiana. European Space Agency officials confirmed Tuesday the SMART-1 spacecraft reached
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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 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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1st LD: European probe SMART-1 crashes into moon's surface    PARIS, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- The SMART-1 orbiter of the European Space Agency, a probe launched aboard an Ariane-5 rocket in September 2003, on Sunday crashed into the moon's surface.
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By FERGUS SHEPPARD  EUROPE'S first lunar mission ended its three years in space yesterday with a controlled and spectacular crash on the Moon, slamming into the planet's surface at 4,500mph and creating a flash visible to astronomers on Earth.
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Europe's first mission to the moon got a scare Saturday, but ground controllers were able make a last-minute course correction that kept the European Space Agency craft from prematurely hitting a lunar crater's rim.
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Monday night will mark the beginning of Europeâs space exploration, as a tiny spacecraft will start orbiting the moon. On Monday, SMART-1 (the acronym stands for Small Missions for Advanced Research and
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Europeâs first lunar spacecraft, SMART-1, has successfully cruised into orbit around the Moon. It entered orbit late on Monday, while making its closest approach so far - passing about 5000 kilometres above the lunar surface.
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BERLIN, Nov. 16 -- A small spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, marking a key milestone in Europe&#39;s first successful mission to the moon and setting the stage for the craft to begin studying the lunar
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The Cassini spacecraft, a joint European-US mission that has been orbiting Saturn since June, dropped its wok-shaped, 2.7-meter-wide Huygens probe on a two- week freefall toward Titan, the planet&#39;s largest moon.