India to Launch Moon Lander Mission
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Text of report by Indian news agency PTI Bangalore, 5 February: India plans to undertake another mission to moon aided with a proper lander that would soft land on the lunar surface after its scheduled unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, early next year, India's space agency chief said.
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A Japanese spacecraft touted to be the largest aimed at the moon since NASA&#39;s Apollo era rocketed into space late Thursday on an ambitious mission to study the origins of Earth&#39;s nearest neighbor.
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BANGALORE, India India&#39;s space agency is ready to send a man into space within seven years if the government gives the nod, while preparations have already begun for the launching of an unmanned lunar mission, a top official said Sunday.
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon is about to start. The unmanned, solar energy driven SMART-1 spacecraft has entered the orbit around the Moon.
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China will launch its lunar orbiter Chang&#39;e 1 to explore the moon&#39;s environment and study the thickness of its soil by the end of 2007, according to a senior Chinese space expert in India.
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Sriharikota, Sept 20 (ANI) : India added another feather to its cap in space technology and stole a march over other countries by launching EDUSAT, its first exclusive satellite for educational sector, from here on Monday.
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LONDON - A spacecraft the size of a washing machine and driven by a revolutionary ion motor will begin a braking sequence on Monday that should make it the first European mission to enter lunar orbit.
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Sriharikota, Sept. 20 (PTI): The second state-of-the-art satellite launch pad here is expected to become operational by the end of this year, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman Madhavan Nair, said here today.
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Nasa says it will start building a permanent base on the Moon after astronauts return there in 2020.
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The first European spacecraft sent to the moon has entered lunar orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on November 16, 2004.
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The Smart 1 lunar probe has entered into orbit around the Moon, the first ever European mission to do so.
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China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday, an initial step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to Earth.
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By ERIC TALMADGE TOKYO - All systems are finally go for Japan's first lunar orbiter, which is scheduled for launch on Aug. 16, officials announced Wednesday.
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Japan launched its first lunar probe on Friday, nicknamed Kaguya after a fairy-tale princess, in the latest move in a new race with China, India and the United States to explore the moon.
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The first European spacecraft sent to the moon has entered lunar orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.
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Europeâs first lunar spacecraft is set to go into orbit around the Moon on Monday. SMART-1 has already reached the âgatewayâ to the Moon, the region where its gravity starts to dominate that of the Earth.
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India is rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by 2015, as the mission would cost a lot of money and yield very little in return, the national space agency said Thursday.