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India Takes First Step to Mars
Launch of India’s Mars Orbiter MissionCredit : ISRO Rising space power India has successfully launched its MOM, Mars Orbiter Mission on the first leg of an 11 month journey intended to place the 1350...
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If I Like My Space Program, Can I Keep It?
As with so much else, nobody really knows. In the week which came between two launches towards the one destination almost everyone agrees is the ultimate goal of human spaceflight, at least at...
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More “InSight” into Launch Costs
Maven LaunchCredit : NASA On December 19th, NASA awarded the launch contract for the 2016 Mars Insight Mission to United Launch Alliance, to be carried out aboard an Atlas V 401, for $160 million....
View ArticleMaven Prepares For Mars Gravity Capture Tonight
Image Credit: NASA/GSFC NASA Press Release: NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is nearing its scheduled Sept. 21 insertion into Martian orbit after completing a 10-month...
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Maven Arrives at Mars, India’s MOM Two Days Away
Image Credit: NASA Following a 10 month interplanetary cruise after launch from Cape Canaveral on November 18th 2013, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter arrived successfully...
View ArticleIndia Celebrates a MOM Safe at Mars
Two days after NASA hailed the arrival of its MAVEN spacecraft at the Red Planet, rising space power India is now celebrating the successful orbital insertion of its own; MOM, or Mars Orbital Mission....
View ArticleFirst Results From Maven
Original NASA Caption: Three views of an escaping atmosphere, obtained by MAVEN’s Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph. By observing all of the products of water and carbon dioxide breakdown, MAVEN’s...
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