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American private company takes spacecraft to the Moon
According to Fox News, the private space company Moon Express will launch the small MX-1 spacecraft to the lunar surface in 2015.
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Discover strange objects on Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft has sent from Saturn the image of a strange hexagonal object with surface wind stronger than a Category 5 storm on Earth.
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Found freshwater lakes that once existed on Mars
The Curiosity probe of the US Space Agency (NASA) for the first time detected direct evidence that a freshwater lake once existed on Mars.
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He and America shook Chinese hands and built bases on the moon
British Science Minister David Willetts announces a plan for cooperation between Britain, the US and China to build a common base on the moon.
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Huge spy satellite
The Pentagon is embarking on a giant spy satellite design that can obscure any telescoping telescopes and existing reconnaissance satellites.
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Chinese missiles dropped Brazilian satellites
The Brazilian Ministry of Science announced that a satellite co-produced by China and Brazil, launched by China, did not reach the orbit as expected but fell back to ear…
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The cooling system on ISS is broken
The US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) has announced that one of the two cooling systems on the International Space Station (ISS) stops working, but the astronauts are still s…
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The north does not observe the largest meteor shower of the year
Due to the influence of cold air, cloudy sky, the Northern region will have less chance to observe the Geminids meteor shower, while in the South it is possible.
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NASA demonstrates the moon lander Morpheus
Morpheus was designed by NASA to bring goods to the Moon and elsewhere in the universe. It can carry nearly 500kg of goods such as astronauts, robots, small labs ...
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The best photos taken from space
Time magazine has just published the best photos taken from the space in 2013, in which there is a brilliant north aurora in Alaska, the image of Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraf…
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Life has spread throughout the solar system
Scientists found that asteroids that once destroyed dinosaurs had implanted life on Mars and the moons of the outer solar system.
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Set of three galaxies in the dawn of the universe
Astronomers used the telescope in Chile to combine Hubble's power in orbit to observe the ancient trio of galaxies at the time of the new universe.
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Russia launched the M-21M Progress ship onto the ISS Space Station
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced on November 26 that it successfully launched the Soyuz-U rocket to bring the M-21M Progress transport ship to the…
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China fixed the time for the launch of the lunar exploration ship
Xinhua News Agency cited sources from China's Department of Defense Science-Technology-Industry (SASTIND) on November 26, saying the country will launch a lunar explorat…
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South Korea spends $ 1.85 billion to develop new boosters
South Korea has just planned to launch the rocket produced by the country to bring satellites into orbit by 2020, Xinhua reports information from the Korean government a…