Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 19:33:47 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Luxembourg and China Team Up on Private Mission to the Moon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
One such project is the combination Chang\342\200\231e 5-T1 and Manfred Memorial Moon
Mission (4M), which launched together last Thursday. Both projects are
testbeds for ideas: Chang\342\200\231e 5-T1 is a prototype for a robotic probe
intended to return samples from the Moon to Earth, while 4M is a simple
communications experiment encouraging amateur participation. But the
intriguing bit is that 4M is a project of the private Luxembourg-based
company LuxSpace, while Chang\342\200\231e 5-T1 is a Chinese project, and the whole
endeavor was launched on a Chinese rocket.
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<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/26/luxembourg-and-china-team-up-on-private-mission-to-the-moon.html>

        mark