Several months after departing from<英作者单位一>=<英作者邮件一> the Moon, a Chinese spacecraft has arrived at a new destination about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, according to news reports in China.The Chang'e 2 Moon probe arrived at Lagrange Point 2 (L2) — a place where the gravity of Earth and the sun roughly balance out — Aug. 25, the Xinhua news service reported Aug. 30. Chang'e 2 had left lunar orbit in early June to head for deeper space.New Mexico Spaceport Getting S250K from FAASpaceport America said Aug. 26 that it has received a federal grant for the second year in a row to help fund spaceport infrastructure at the southern New Mexico launch and landing facility.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant is worth nearly $250,000 toward the cost of a roll-back vehicle integration building at Spaceport America.New Mexico Spaceport Authority Executive Director Christine Anderson said the new $500,000 facility will permit Spaceport America to accommodatelarger vehicles currently under develop-ment with an eye toward using the desert launch facility."Currently, we can only accommodate vehicles up to approximately 24 feet (7.3 meters) long and 5 feet (1.5 meters) wide," Anderson said. "New vehicles under development are much longer, and some have wings for glide recovery. The new roll-back vehicle integration building will let us handle these new vehicles as they come on line."Lockheed Would Produce New Interceptor in AlabamaLockheed Martin announced Aug. 24 that should it land the Pentagon contract to build a new missile interceptor dubbed the Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block 2B, production would take place at an existing company facility in Court-land, Ala."This is a little presumptuous on our part, but... it was important to make the decision and build it into the proposal we'll submit next year for the product development phase [to] the Missile Defense Agency," Douglas R. Graham, who heads Lockheed Martin's missile defense arm, said during a press briefing in Washington.
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