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Japan is about to launch new generation missiles
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Japan is about to launch new generation missiles

Epsilon, Japan's new generation rocket, will fly to space in August. The launch will take place at Uchinoura Space Center, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan on August 22, NHK…

December 17, 2018
China decided to find extraterrestrial life
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China decided to find extraterrestrial life

Chinese scientists built a telescope in the highest position in Antarctica in early 2012. This position is more than 4,000m above sea level. The main task of the glass i…

December 17, 2018
Detecting strange minerals on the Moon volcano
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Detecting strange minerals on the Moon volcano

This statement was made in an article published in Nature Geoscience. Scientists have used computers to show that these rare minerals may not have originated from the Mo…

December 17, 2018
Reveal the plan to settle on the Moon in 2020
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Reveal the plan to settle on the Moon in 2020

The world's leading corporations are trying to make the ambition of bringing people to life on the Moon by 2020, before the plan to live on Mars becomes a reality.

December 17, 2018
NASA lets people try it on ...
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NASA lets people try it on ...

NASA has just conducted an experiment to understand and prepare astronauts' lives when they land on Mars in nearly 20 years.

December 17, 2018
New crew on ISS
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New crew on ISS

In the early morning of May 29, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft took the new three-man crew to the International Space Station (ISS). Among them is the youngest astronaut Luc…

December 17, 2018
Headache of satellite security
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Headache of satellite security

AFP announced on May 24 that the Ecuadorian Space Agency (EXA) said the country's Pegaso satellite touched a fragment of an S-14 rocket launched by the Soviet Union in 1…

December 17, 2018
Evidence of water once flowing on Mars
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Evidence of water once flowing on Mars

The Curiosity probe of the US Space Agency (NASA) found circular stones on Mars. Scientists say stones are only formed when they are swept away over long distances by wa…

December 17, 2018
Set up an asteroid pedigree near Earth
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Set up an asteroid pedigree near Earth

The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) said data transmitted from the WISE spacecraft provided a new genealogy of belt asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.

December 17, 2018
Radiation is deadly in the Martian mission
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Radiation is deadly in the Martian mission

The measurement results made by Mars self-propelled Curiosity show that astronauts face more dense radiation than previously thought, complicating the potential mission…

December 17, 2018
New technique to monitor solar storms
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New technique to monitor solar storms

Chinese scientists say they have found a new way to detect the direction of the eruption of coronal material on the sun's surface, the culprit behind the solar storms.

December 17, 2018
Appears the most powerful solar flare
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Appears the most powerful solar flare

The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced it has recorded the strongest solar flare from the beginning of the year, and also the first X-level fla…

December 17, 2018