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Building A Better Robot Arm For Lunar RoversLondon, Canada (SPX) Jun 30, 2010 Western professor Gordon Osinski (Earth Sciences, Physics AND Astronomy) is leading a Canadian science team in developing a robotic arm that will potentially be used by NASA to obtain rock samples from the moon. The MoonRise project (Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin Sample Return Mission), led by Washington University (St.Louis, MO) professor Bradley Jolliff, is one of three contracts awarded from The Canadian Space Agency to develop three different concept studies for Canada's participation in NASA' ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jun 18, 2010The Council of the European Space Agency has announced that Jean-Jacques Dordain will continue as the Director General of ESA for a further period of four years. Mr Dordain has served as Director General of ESA since 2003. This third mandate extends his term to June 2015. Mr Dordain's tenure at ESA includes many important European space milestones. At the end of 2003 he signed the first Fr ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2010When I first heard about the propose MUSES-C mission (the original name of what is now known as Hayabusa), I thought it was an impossible dream. Sample return is hard - it has only been done robotically once (by the Soviet Union) from a planetary surface. It requires many major individual mission accomplishments: rendezvous with a celestial body, operations and science investigations around that ... more 
Paris (AFP) June 17, 2010Jean-Jacques Dordain has been appointed to a third term as director-general of the European Space Agency, ESA said on Thursday in a press release. Dordain, a 64-year-old Frenchman who has been in office since 2003, was named for a further four years, extending his mandate to June 2015, the Paris-headquartered agency said. ESA has 18 member states, 16 of them members of the European Union ... more |
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UK Space Agency Funds International Mars RoverLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2010 The UK Space Agency is announcing Pounds 10.5M for the development of instruments to search for signs of past or present life on Mars. The instruments are part of the scientific payload on the ExoMars rover to be launched in 2018 as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and US space agency NASA. ExoMars is a flagship project in the UK Space Agency's science and exploration programme. A two-step programme, the adventure begins in 2016 when NASA will launch an ESA-led orbi ... read more |
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