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Impact Landing Ends SMART-1 Mission To The Moon

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Audience/Grade: College Freshman - Continuing Education
Discipline(s): Aerospace Engineering
Learning Resource Type: Reference - Article/Document
Media Type:

 WWW
Author(s): Science Daily
Description: "ScienceDaily (Sep. 3, 2006) "Early Sunday morning, a small flash illuminated the surface of the Moon as the European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft impacted onto the lunar soil, in the 'Lake of Excellence' region. The planned impact concluded a successful mission that, in addition to testing innovative space technology, had been conducting a thorough scientific exploration of the Moon for about a year and a half." Image caption: This artist's impression shows the trajectory of ESA SMART-1 spacecraft in the final phase of its mission, due to end through a small impact on the lunar surface. After two weeks of manoeuvres started on 19 June and concluded on 2 July 2006, the impact is now set to occur on the near side and most probably at 05:41 UT (07:41 CEST) on 3 September 2006.
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Keywords: Arianne-5, lunar exploration, SMART-1, Ariane 5
   
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Use of Resource: History of technology.
Difficulty: Medium
Interactivity Level: Very Low

   
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Publication Date: 2006
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060903150333.htm
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS