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TransOrbital is a California-based company which became the first private company granted U.S. government permission to explore, photograph, and land on the moon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Geographic News )〕 The company has been covered in over 2,000 news articles worldwide, and announced a sponsorship agreement with Hewlett-Packard in 2003. The company has not yet launched the TrailBlazer lunar orbiter, which hopes to be the first privately funded mission to the Moon. TransOrbital launched a test spacecraft into orbit in 2002 aboard a Dnepr-1 launch vehicle. The satellite is a 420 kg test article that orbits the earth every 97 minutes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Orbital Elements for Trailblazer Satellite )〕 ==External links== *(Official website )—seems to be a zombie-site, not updated for almost a decade *(Wired Magazine: The Race Back to the Moon ) *(CNN: Private moon venture given U.S. clearance ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「TransOrbital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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