News on Lunar-missions
- New even more detailed images of Apollo landers
- GRAIL Moon-satellites returns video of the Moon
- NASAs twin Moon probes enters orbit this weekend
- GRAIL satellittes heading for the Moon
- See the Apollo landings on Google-Moon
- GRAIL heading for the Moon
- Lunar landing sites imaged from a 21km orbit!
- NASA Moon mission ready for launch
- Launch of GRAIL Lunar mission sep 9
- Twin ARTEMIS probes to study moon in 3D
- Artemis probe inserted into lunar orbits
- China increasing rocket capabilities
- Stunning new LRO images of Apollo 14 lanidng site
- Re-inventing the wheel for micro-rovers
- China publishes in-flght videoes of lunar orbiter
- Spacemining on the moon is a not-so-distant possibility
- China presents first photos from new lunar orbiter
- Chinese lunar orbioter reaches Moon-orbit
- Chinas second lunar probe launched
- Water on the Moon can affect telescope plans
- ESAs moon-lander
- NASA tests Orion module
- Lost reflector found on the Moon
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Artemis probe inserted into lunar orbits
Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:47
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It took the spacecraft one and a half years, over 90 orbit maneuvers, many gravitational boosts and surprisingly little fuel to
move the two spacecraft. The spacecraft have been through orbits never before attempted and made lovely curlicue leaps from one orbit to the next to reach their destination orbit. This animation visualizes the maneuvers required to move the ARTEMIS spacecraft from their kidney-shaped paths on each side of the moon to orbiting the moon. Source; NASA |




