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CNES Gives Green Light To Multitude Of Exploration Missions
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 13, 2004 CNES announced on December 3 that it will be strongly involved in four major space exploration missions, whose development will begin this year and which will be launched between 2008 and 2012. First, the Bepi Colombo mission to Mercury and the LISA Pathfinder mission, aimed to demonstrate several innovative technologies for gravitational waves observation, will be developed in cooperation with ESA. Second, CNES confirmed its participation to the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL-09), a mission led by NASA, whose goal is to send a 600-kilograms rover to Mars, with a long life duration and coverage capability. The Mars samples analyzed in situ by the rover are considered as a high priority by French planetology specialists. Finally, CNES has restored to life the Picard project, selected in 1998 but which had been temporally frozen. Picard mission will study solar activity, especially solar diameter and irradiance evolutions in order to achieve a twofold goal: better understanding of solar physics, and of its influence on Earth climate. Development costs will be approximately 30 millions euros for both the Bepi-Colombo and MSL-09 missions (2005-2010 period), 17 millions euros for Picard (2004-2008 period), and 1.8 million euros for the LISA Pathfinder (2005-2007 period). Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links CNES SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News
Spicing Up Space Meals
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2006Since its launch a year and half ago, Minimus.biz has quickly become the place to go for individual and travel size items. Last week, NASA came to Minimus.biz and purchased several different travel size condiments to send with the astronauts to the International Space Station. |
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