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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By DAVID McHUGH 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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By David McHugh< 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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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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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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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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3rd LD Writethru: European probe SMART-1 crashes into moon's surface    PARIS/BERLIN, 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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Paris - Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon, the unmanned probe SMART-1, has been safely placed in orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Tuesday.
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The ESA Huygens probe parachuted to Titan on Jan. 14th, landed safely, and transmitted the first sounds and pictures from the surface of Saturn's giant moon.
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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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A European space probe has landed on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan, a space official said Friday, buoying hopes that the mission would produce data that could shed light on the origins of life on Earth.
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European Space Agency's Smart 1 probe is set to enter into orbit around the Moon on Monday.
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THE first spacecraft sent from Europe to the Moon has safely entered lunar orbit, scientists behind the mission learnt yesterday. Smart-1, which is powered by a Star
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The European Space Agency&#39;s Huygens probe successfully detached from NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter to begin a three-week journey to SaturnÂ¢Â¯s moon Titan.
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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.
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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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THE MISSION: The European Space Agency's Huygens probe entered the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan in a mission to provide clues to how life arose on Earth.