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Russia to launch IGN-10 K neutron generator to moon in 2012

Moscow, Russia - It is designed to study Mars surface

Russia will bring impulse neutron generator to the moon in 2012, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday. "Roscosmos plans to send to the moon a spacecraft bearing a neutron generator developed by our institute, to study lunar surface", reported RIA Novosti news agency quoting Yevgeny Bogolyubov, the deputy chief designer of the Automation Engineering Scientific Research Institute. The...

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Rome, Italy, 08/04/2010 21:18
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