Euro probe comes in 4th in moon race
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Nearly 40 years after US and Soviet space probes orbited the moon, the European Space Agency has put its own satellite into lunar orbit.
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A plan for the first British-led mission  to the Moon won the backing of an Anglo-American space  committee on Friday.
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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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It&#39;s been a long trip, but Europe&#39;s first Moon mission is finally nearing its goal. SMART-1, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) way back on 27 September 2003, will go into orbit around the Moon on 15 November.
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PARIS - Europe&#39;s dishwasher-sized spacecraft has entered a lunar orbit. The unmanned mission is the continent&#39;s first voyage to the 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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Rivals for lunar conquest four decades ago, Russia hopes to join the U.S. moon exploration program with technology and know-how, a Russian space agency spokesman said Thursday.
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Europe's first moon probe signed off its   mission on schedule by crashing into the lunar surface on   Sunday, completing a project scientists hope will tell them   more about the moon's origin.
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 25 -- More than 750 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe was released from NASA's Cassini orbiter Christmas Eve and placed on a collision course with Titan, one of Saturn's many moons.
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A US-European spacecraft is preparing to explore the planet Saturn&#39;s huge moon, Titan. The &quot;Cassini-Huygens&quot; spacecraft that has orbited the ringed planet since July is to venture within 1,200 kilometers of the cloud-covered moon on 26 October.
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The Smart 1 lunar probe has entered into orbit around the Moon, the first European mission to do so. On Monday, Smart 1 began firing its ion engine to bring it into lunar orbit.
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A small spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, signaling Europe's first successful mission to the moon and paving the way for the craft to be used to study the lunar surface, a European Space Agency spokesman said Tuesday.
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NASA scientists and their colleagues at the European Space Agency await the first reports from their spacecraft and probe, which will pass closer to Saturn's icy moon than ever before.
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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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A EUROPEAN spacecraft powered by a Star Trek-style thruster has flown through a âlunar gatewayâ that puts it on course to reach the Moon on Monday.
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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.