Sentences with phrase «first lunar orbiter»

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future...

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future missions to the moon.

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The country's first lunar forays — orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010 — were more engineering demonstrations than scientific missions, but that changed with the first lander, Chang «e-3.

The moon may carry material produced by life from Earth dating back to when plants first filled the planet's air with oxygen, according to study of data from a Japanese lunar orbiter.

JAPAN Since its first launch in 1970, the country has lofted numerous Earth - observation satellites, a spacecraft powered by a solar sail, and SELENE, a lunar orbiter that mapped the moon's surface.

NASA is following up with the first comprehensive, up - close map of the moon, being created by the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), circling the moon at an altitude of 31 miles, recently sent back the first global temperature maps of the surface (at right).

In 2019, the David Guiraud Gallery is going to present a major exhibition on NASA's Lunar Orbiter, Gemini and Apollo missions that put the first man on the Moon.