Moon Mission

India draws up own Google Earth plan — Space programme spin-off India is planning to create its own version of Google Earth on the back of its successful moon mission.…... [Tags: earth plan, google, google earth, india, moon mission]

China's Chang'e 1 Probe Beams Back Completed Map of The Moon [Moon Map] — With help from its moon photographing probe, the Chang'e 1, China's created the country's first full map of the lunar surface and they're calling it the best one yet. According to the heads of the space program, the map is the most complete image of the moon's surface, as well as the richest in detail, in the world. The Chang'e 1 was launched in October 2007 and relayed back the first pictures of the moon roughly this time last year. The satellite marks the first moon mission the country's ever undertaken. Now that it's completed its mission, China will... [Tags: china, first moon, lunar probe, lunar surface, map of the moon]

Chandrayaan Enters Lunar Orbit — William Robinson writes "After an 18-day journey, Chandrayaan-1, the moon mission of India, has entered Lunar orbit. The maneuver was described as crucial and critical by scientists, who pointed out that at least 30 per cent of similar moon missions had failed at this juncture, resulting in spacecraft lost to outer space. The lunar orbit insertion placed Chandrayaan-1 in an elliptical orbit with its nearest point 400 to 500 kilometers away from the moon, and the farthest, 7,500 kilometers. By November 15, the spacecraft is expected to be orbiting the moon at a distance of 100 kilometers and sending back... [Tags: chandrayaan, earth, elliptical orbit, images, india]

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Carmack's rocket wins $350,000 in mock moon mission — Third time's a charm for Doom creator John Carmack, creator of the childhood-innocence-purging video games Doom and Quake, has finally lead his team of rocketeers at Armadillo Aerospace to victory in the annual Northrop Grumman Lunar Landing challenge.…... [Tags: armadillo, armadillo aerospace, childhood innocence, doom, grumman]

SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: India's Moon Mission, More — An American space tourist returns to Earth, India launches first mission to the moon, and more in our weekly update of space photos.... [Tags: american space, earth, first mission to the moon, india, mission to the moon]

India Launches Nation's First Moon Mission — The ISRO, even after several months of delays, launched an unmanned lunar orbiter...... [Tags: first moon, india, isro, lunar orbiter, moon mission]

India launches first moon mission — India has successfully launched its first mission to the Moon. The unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft blasted off smoothly from a launch pad in southern Andhra Pradesh to embark on a two-year mission of exploration.... [Tags: andhra pradesh, chandrayaan, first mission to the moon, first moon, launch pad]

Video: India launches its first moon mission — Some good ol’ fashioned science news for you this dreary morning. Congrats are due to India, which launched its first moon mission a few hours ago. It’s an unmanned flight, so don’t expect to see video of Indian astronauts playing golf or cricket up there or anything. There will, however, be an Indian flag placed up there by the unmanned rover-dealie. The Chandrayaan-1 (literally, lunar-craft 1), which launched from the country’s southeast, will be tooling about for two years, primarily modeling the surface of the moon. Maybe India can sell the data to Google, giving us Google Moon? There’s... [Tags: astronauts, chandrayaan, congrats, cricket, first moon]

Indian Moon Mission Launched — hackerdownunder writes "India's maiden lunar mission (Chandrayaan-1) got off to a flying start today. Describing the launch as "perfect and precise", the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), G Madhavan Nair, said that it would be 14 days before the satellite would enter into lunar orbit. Chandrayaan carries eleven payloads, five designed and developed in India, three from European Space Agency, one from Bulgaria and two from NASA."Read more of this story at Slashdot.... [Tags: bulgaria, european space agency, india, indian moon, indian space research]

India launches first unmanned moon mission — India launched its first mission to the moon Wednesday, rocketing a satellite up into the pale dawn sky in a two-year mission ...... [Tags: dawn sky, first mission to the moon, mission india, mission to the moon, moon mission]

India launches first moon mission — SRIHARIKOTA, India (Reuters) - India launched its first unmanned moon mission on Wednesday following in the footsteps of rival China, as the emerging Asian power celebrated its space ambitions and scientific prowess.... [Tags: ambitions, asian power, first moon, footsteps, india]

VIDEO: India Heads to Moon — Aiming to redraw lunar maps, India has launched its first moon mission, joining other countries in a new space race.... [Tags: first moon, india, lunar maps, moon mission, space race]

Indian Moon mission is go for 22 October — Hi-tech survey gig for Chandrayaan-1 India is all set to launch its first unmanned Moon mission on 22 October - the Chandrayaan-1 probe, which will over two years survey our satellite's surface with a rack of hi-res kit.…... [Tags: 22 october, chandrayaan, gig, hi tech, india]

How to install the Android SDK on Ubuntu — Why oh why didn't I install Ubuntu 8.04 on my MSI Wind instead of OS X? If I had, I could have followed these lengthy, but reasonably simple, instructions to install the Android SDK on Ubuntu! Actually I see that the Android SDK can be installed on OS X 10.4.8 and up or Windows XP / Vista so once I find the time, I can still play. And I do mean play since the Android folks have the sample code for Lunar Lander on the Android platform. This is really for programming types and the morbidly curious because it's essentially... [Tags: connectivity, development environment, eclipse, emulator, google]

Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month — Anil Kandangath writes with word that the Indian moon mission plans (mentioned earlier on Slashdot) are about to be put to the test. "While the spacecraft itself will not land on the Moon, it will act as an orbiter and land a rover on the surface. The spacecraft is being launched next month sometime between October 22 and October 26. The spacecraft payload includes 11 payloads (including one from NASA) and will perform remote sensing and studies of the lunar surface. The mission is estimated to cost Rs 386 crore (~ 7.7 million USD)."Read more of this story at Slashdot.... [Tags: indian moon, lunar surface, moon mission, nasa, october 26]