Europe's Smart-1 Reaches Lunar Orbit
Smart-1, the European Space Agency's first Small Mission for Advanced Research in Technology, has demonstrated that solar-electric propulsion can get a spacecraft to the Moon. The 370-kg. (814-lb.) spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Nov. 15 after a spiraling journey from low-Earth orbit that consumed...
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