Northrop Grumman to co-design Jupiter moons explorer for NASA
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PASADENA - Northrop Grumman Space Technology has been selected to help NASA design a nuclear-powered spacecraft to orbit and explore three moons of Jupiter that may have oceans beneath their icy surfaces.
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Fourteen space agencies have agreed to co-ordinate future space exploration of the Moon and Mars.
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WASHINGTON &#x2014; NASA has transferred its X-37 technology demonstration program    to the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which plans    to go ahead with atmospheric drop tests of the prototype space plane next year.
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A radar image of the surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan, taken Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, by the spacecraft Cassini, is seen in this photo courtesy of NASA.
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Peter Staudhammer, a wide-ranging aerospace engineer and executive, helped design instruments and engines used by NASA in landings on Mars and the Moon.
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NASA plans to launch the Phoenix Mars Lander during a three-week window that opens on Aug. 3 on a mission to the northern region of the Red Planet.
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Boeing and Northrop Grumman have inked a memorandum of agreement which will see the two aerospace giants join forces to compete for the contract to build NASA&#39;s Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) - part of the Agency&#39;s Constellation project to send robotic
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University of Arizona scientists who have devoted their careers to exploring Saturn are about to get their best look yet at Titan, the mysterious moon that will serve as a &quot;slingshot&quot; 44 times during the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s four-year mission.
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ESA and NASA are mounting a joint campaign to observe Jupiter over the next few weeks with two different spacecraft.
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NASA has picked a group led by US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp. to build a new spacecraft that will take astronauts back to the moon, the space agency said.
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BOULDER , Colo. -- NASA announced Wednesday the suite of US science investigators for its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) project, as well as a Russian scientist.
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When New Horizons, NASA's Pluto-bound spacecraft, swings by Jupiter on Feb.
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NASA announced new details Thursday about its plans for a Moon base that included a pair of small, pressurized rovers with a range of nearly 600 miles.
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The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, a joint project of the US space administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian space agency (ASI), has discovered two more small moons orbiting the planet Saturn, bringing the total to 33.
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WASHINGTON -- Northrop Grumman beat out Boeing and Lockheed Martin to win a $400 million contract to help NASA design the proposed multibillion dollar Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) mission.
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LOS ANGELES - Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. and aerospace giant Boeing Co. said Tuesday that theyâll bid as a team to compete for NASAâs planned manned and robotic space-exploration program.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected proposals, including two from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for future lunar science activities. In addition, the agency has established two new programs that will enhance research made possible by the Vision for Space Exploration.