Arrival! SMART-1 Moon Probe Reaches Target
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UPDATE: Story first posted 6:49 a.m. ET, November 16,  2004
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The SMART-1 probe made it to within 3,100 miles of the moon yesterday morning, and will now begin spinning its way closer to the surface, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
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PARIS The first European spacecraft sent to the Moon has entered orbit there, the European Space Agency said on Tuesday. The SMART-1 spacecraft reached its closest point to the Moon so far, coming within 5,000
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After a 13-month journey, a tiny spacecraft the size of a washing machine, driven by &quot;Star Trek&quot; technology, will begin to orbit the moon on Monday night.
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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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The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn. The 2.7m-wide robot lab has passed its final systems check-out and scientists
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The launch of the nation's first lunar orbiter signals the beginning of China's long-range goal of sending a rover to the moon's surface and returning it to Earth.
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European spacecraft Smart 1 is at the Moon&#39;s gateway, the region beyond which the probe is tugged more strongly by lunar gravity than by the Earth&#39;s.
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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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The Huygens probe appears to be on the right course after being unleashed on its journey to Saturn&#39;s largest moon Titan, says the US space agency (Nasa).
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The Huygens probe has been successfully sending data as it approaches the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
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More than 30 years after the last Apollo mission, European scientists have made it to the moon. Their experimental Smart-1 probe, powered by a revolutionary Star Trek-style thruster, has entered into orbit around the lunar surface.
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The Huygens probe seems to be on the right course after being unleashed on its journey to Saturn's moon Titan.
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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&#39;s unmanned space probe has successfully entered its first orbit of the Moon, spiraling closer to the lunar surface on a journey that began more than 13 months ago, the European Space Agency said on its Web site.
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The European Space Agency prepares to send its Huygens probe hurtling through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan. What the probe will find on the other side is anybody's guess. By Amit Asaravala.
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The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn.