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| Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/24/2004 8:34:37 AM PDT · 14 replies · 207+ views RedNova.com | Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 11:34 CDT | European Space Agency The SMART-1 mission was designed to pursue two main objectives. The first is purely technological: to demonstrate and test a number of space techniques to be applied to future interplanetary exploration missions. The second goal is scientific, mainly dedicated to lunar science. It is the technology demonstration goal, in particular the first European flight test of a solar-powered ion engine as a spacecraft’s main propulsion system, that gave shape to the peculiar route and duration (13 months) of the SMART-1 journey to the Moon. The long spiralling orbit around Earth, which is bringing the spacecraft closer and closer to the... |
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| Europe targets the Moon |
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| Posted by areafiftyone On News/Activism 03/04/2003 9:45:26 AM PST · 61 replies · 54+ views BBC News | 3/4/03 Europe's first mission to the Moon looks set for a July blast-off. Scientists and engineers working on the Smart 1 spacecraft are hoping to fly around the 15th of that month - but it all depends on the status of the launcher. Currently, Europe's rockets are grounded following the high-profile failure of a vehicle in December last year. But it seems the rocket's operators, Arianespace, are confident enough about the outcome of a post-accident review of systems to give Smart 1 a provisional launch date. "We've just been told we can go for July," Dr Sarah Dunkin, one of the... |
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| Posted by HAL9000 On News/Activism 09/27/2003 10:36:29 PM PDT · 18 replies · 34+ views CNN.com | September 28, 2003 <p>KOUROU, French Guiana -- Europe's first mission to the moon has successfully blasted off aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana.</p> <p>The rocket, carrying the unmanned SMART-1 lunar exploration probe and two other commercial satellites, took off at 8.14 p.m. (2314 GMT) Saturday from the European Space Agency (ESA) launch centre at Kourou, on the northeast coast of South America.</p> |
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| Fly me to the moon (1st Euroweenie moon probe set for October) |
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| Posted by mhking On News/Activism 08/22/2003 7:47:02 AM PDT · 17 replies · 30+ views The Economist | 8.21.03 The first European mission to the moon is scheduled to blast off in October ALTHOUGH many missions have been sent to our lunar neighbour, the lure of the moon remains enormous. If all goes well, in October, another attempt to prise free a few more lunar secrets will launch from French Guiana. Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) are looking for clues that may shed light on the moon's origins, and also search for hard evidence of water-ice in craters near the poles. The tiny, 370kg (816lb), probe known as SMART-1 will hitch a ride into space with two... |
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| European Moon mission set for blast off (Update) |
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| Posted by bedolido On News/Activism 09/26/2003 8:51:12 AM PDT · 55 replies · 60+ views New Scientist | 09/26/03 | Will Knight Europe's first mission to the Moon is set for blast off from Kourou in French Guiana just after midnight, local time, on Sunday. SMART 1 will be launched from the European spaceport between 2302 and 2321 GMT. It will be taken into space by European's Ariane 5 rocket, along with an Indian science probe and a commercial satellite. It will take 15 months for SMART 1 to reach the Moon. On arrival it will enter into polar orbit enabling it to view the Moon's surface from every angle. The probe will then spend six months combing the lunar landscape for... |
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| Posted by RightWhale On News/Activism 08/08/2003 9:09:49 AM PDT · 13 replies · 48+ views spaceref.com | 8 Aug 03 | staff Europe's first Moon probe prepares for launch ESA PR 50-2003. Europe's first probe to the Moon, SMART-1, is about to begin a unique journey that will take it into orbit around our closest neighbour, powered only by an ion engine which Europe will be testing for the first time as main spacecraft propulsion. The European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft was delivered to Kourou, French Guiana, on July 15 and is currently being prepared for launch atop an Ariane 5 during the night from August 28 to 29. The launch window will open at 20:04 local time (01:04 on August... |
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| ESA develops a smarter way to travel through space |
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| Posted by callisto On General/Chat 06/11/2002 6:07:17 AM PDT · 8 replies · 63+ views European Space Agency | 06.11.02 | ESA 11-Jun-2002 As scientists demand more from space missions travelling to other worlds and beyond, traditional rocket technologies are beginning to show shortcomings. In response, ESA are helping to develop a new type of rocket engine, known as solar-electric propulsion, or more commonly, an ion engine, that can mark a whole new era of space exploration. Solar-electric propulsion is ESA's new spacecraft engine. It does not burn fuel as chemical rockets do; instead the technique converts sunlight into electricity via solar panels and uses it to electrically charge heavy gas atoms, which accelerate from the spacecraft at high velocity. This drives... |
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NASA challenges Moon hoax claims
BBC News Online | 11/07/02 | Dr. David Whitehouse
Posted on 11/07/2002 1:36:35 PM PST by GeneD
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NASA Debunks Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy
Government News
Source: CNN.com
Published: 02/19/2001 Author: Richard Stenger, CNN.com Writer
Posted on 02/20/2001 14:30:57 PST by GeekDejure
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a92f0211352.htm
NASA hires writer to debunk Apollo theory (Theory that Moon missions were faked)
Galveston County Daily News | October 31, 2002 | Ted Streuli
Posted on 10/31/2002 6:35:19 AM PST by No Truce With Kings
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/779237/posts
NASA Pulls Moon Hoax Book
BBC | 11-8-2002
Posted on 11/08/2002 3:09:00 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/785428/posts
NASA Unsure of How to Counter the 'Moon Hoax'
The Associated Press | January 5th 2003 | MARCIA DUNN
Posted on 01/05/2003 5:06:37 PM PST by ContentiousObjector
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/817393/posts
Footage NASA never wanted you to see (video link)
moontruth.com | July 20, 1969 | Moontruth
Posted on 11/19/2003 3:31:13 PM PST by mikegi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1025207/posts
Lessons of the "Fake Moon Flight" Myth (corrosive media culture alert)
The Skeptical Enquirer | March, 2003 | James Oberg
Posted on 05/16/2003 11:43:14 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/912909/posts
That's like trying to argue sense into a Socialist!
--Boris
Are Apollo Moon Photos Fake?
02/26/2001 Ian Williams Goddard
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/iangoddard/moon01.htm
Mars Rovers a Fraud
Procto News Service | 05/08/2005 | donprocto
Posted on 05/08/2005 7:13:13 AM PDT by donprocto
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1398979/posts
well, I'm convinced.
http://www.dc8p.com/html/moonhoax.html
http://www.dc8p.com/html/moonstream.swf
World's biggest telescope to prove Americans really walked on Moon
(HOLD MY BEANIE ALERT)
The Sunday Telegraph | November 24, 2002 | Robert Matthews
Posted on 11/23/2002 5:00:25 PM PST by MadIvan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/794743/posts
related. Well, maybe not.
Ex-astronaut Aldrin accused of punching man
CNN | September 10, 2002
Posted on 09/11/2002 1:32:28 PM EDT by TomB
Edited on 04/29/2004 5:01:14 AM EDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748775/posts
Apollo astronaut says he hit man in self defense
CNN | 9/12/02
Posted on 09/12/2002 6:25:50 PM EDT by TomB
Edited on 04/29/2004 5:01:14 AM EDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/749600/posts
Ex-astronaut escapes assault charge (BUZZ ALDRIN ALERT)
BBC News | September 21, 2002 | BBC News
Posted on 09/21/2002 8:04:03 AM EDT by MadIvan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/754759/posts
Sensation: Cities Found on the Moon!
Pravda
Posted on 10/08/2002 3:36:29 PM EDT by Junior
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/765322/posts
Roadmap To Mars [Buzz Aldrin]
Popular Mechanics | December 2005 | Buzz Aldrin, with David Noland, illus by Jeremy Cook, Buzz portrait by Michael Kelley
Posted on 12/21/2005 11:15:57 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1544699/posts