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India will launch its first unmanned mission to the Moon on 22 October, the country’s space officials say, weather conditions permitting.

The spacecraft, named Chandrayaan-1, will orbit the Moon, surveying its surface with high-resolution equipment.

The launch had been scheduled for April, but was pushed back due to technical problems.

The project will cost $83m and has the direct involvement of six other countries, including the US and Europe.

Over the next two years, it will survey the lunar surface to produce a complete map of its chemical characteristics and its three-dimensional topography.

The European Space Agency (Esa) is supporting the mission, supplying three instruments.

These will investigate the Moon’s surface and near-surface composition, and the way the lunar body interacts with the fast-moving particles streaming away from the Sun.

Chandrayaan-1 will also drop a small impact probe on to the lunar surface to test its properties.

Continue Reading Here: Via BBC News.

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Over at Facebook they’ve launched a new system called, “Spaces”. And as usual, we’re jumping right on it! So if your a member of Facebook head over to our group and check this new Ad system out. Here’s a little back story on what Spaces, (or Facebook Pages), are.
From this story over at Mashable, “Facebook Ads represent a completely new way of advertising online. For the last hundred years media has been pushed out to people, but now marketers are going to be a part of the conversation. And they’re going to do this by using the social graph in the same way our users do.”
And to answer the inevitable questions of “how could DW get into bed with a faceless giant like Facebook”? Well, from this TechCrunch article,
Q: “Are you worried this will make Facebok too commercial?”

Z: “Actually I think this will make it less commercial because the ads now are [more generic].”
We at DW think this could be a great way to get deeper into relationships with our customers. This is why we’re hitting this so soon and fast. Of course cause it’s a hot new thing is also a good reason to jump on board.
And we’re not alone.
Check this out.