Contact lost, India terminates first moon mission
http://www.reuters.com/
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - India terminated its first mission to the moon Sunday, a spokesman for the national space agency said, a day after scientists lost all contact with an unmanned spacecraft orbiting the moon.
"Our efforts to establish contact have failed. The mission has been terminated," said S. Satish, spokesman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). "There was no point continuing with the mission."
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http://spaceflightnow.com/
Anomaly spoils China's string of successful launches
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: August 31, 2009
Breaking a 13-year streak of successful launches, a Chinese Long March rocket failed to deliver an Indonesian communications satellite to its planned orbit Monday.
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-- NASA STS-128 MCC Status Report #06 1 p.m. CDT Monday, Aug. 31, 2009
http://www.spaceref.com/news/
-- NASA STS-128 Execute Package FD04
http://www.spaceref.com/news/
-- NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 31 August 2009
http://www.spaceref.com/news/
"Pilot Kevin Ford and Expedition 20 Flight Engineer Mike Barratt will use the station robotic arm to move the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) from Discovery's payload bay to the Earth-facing port on the station's Harmony module. They're expected to start the nearly three-hour maneuver just after 2:30 p.m. Mission specialists Christer Fuglesang of the European Space Agency and Tim Kopra will assist with the attachment and activation activity. After leak checks and pressurization, the teams are expected to open the hatches to the cargo module at 12:34 a.m. Tuesday. The MPLM is carrying 15,000 pounds of supplies and equipment for use on the station, including more science facilities. The crew will spend the next several days
unloading the hardware."
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