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Private company plans Moonshot mission

FEB 17, 2009

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023066

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Nature News : A spectrometer meant to fly to Mars on a European mission in 2016 will get to the Moon first. The Dutch team that is building the instrument last week announced it would send a scaled-up version, dubbed MoonShot , to the lunar surface by 2011 with Odyssey Moon , a company headquartered in the Isle of Man, UK.
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