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Russia 'abandoned' Proton-M rocket
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Russia 'abandoned' Proton-M rocket

The Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) will halt the launch of the Proton-M rocket with the Briz-M propulsion system after the missile fails to put two telescopes on orbit…

December 17, 2018
NASA reveals driver 'monster car on Mars'
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NASA reveals driver 'monster car on Mars'

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has revealed information about a selected group of drivers and waited to take control of NASA's self-driving Curiosity - NASA's

December 17, 2018
Dark matter near the sun?
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Dark matter near the sun?

A large mass of so-called invisible dark matter may have been discovered near our sun. And this mysterious form of matter is creating a gravitational influence on dwarfs…

December 17, 2018
NASA's landing machine exploded during testing
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NASA's landing machine exploded during testing

Morpheus, the name of a spider-like retrofit device, was tested on August 9 in US time at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. It rushed to the ground imme…

December 17, 2018
People will go to Mars in the next century?
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People will go to Mars in the next century?

A leading scientist from the Royal Society said that the Curiosity Mars probe of the US Space Agency (NASA) will be the basis for current living people to set foot on th…

December 17, 2018
The strange cloud on Mars is sent by Curiosity
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The strange cloud on Mars is sent by Curiosity

A strange cloud on Mars that NASA's Curiosity captures while landing on the Red Planet has made the online community buzz. Is it a gloomy clod? Part of the robot? Someth…

December 17, 2018
Aquarium on space station
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Aquarium on space station

An aquarium called Aquatic Habit (AQH) was provided to ISS to study the space environment for marine life.

December 17, 2018
China launches satellite global data transfer
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China launches satellite global data transfer

On the night of July 25, China successfully launched Thien Lien I-03 (Tianlian) satellite from the Xuchang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province, completing the fi…

December 17, 2018
NASA uses telescopes to
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NASA uses telescopes to

The telescope named NuStar was pushed into orbit to begin the mission of two years of searching for black holes, remnants of exploding stars, and other strange objects t…

December 17, 2018
Bolivian space scientists are trained in China
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Bolivian space scientists are trained in China

According to the Bolivian Space Agency (ABE), scientists in the country will be trained in China, in preparation for the transfer of a satellite built in China by the en…

December 17, 2018
Ruins of the early universe
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Ruins of the early universe

After nearly three years of constantly monitoring an extremely bright object less than 300 million light-years from Earth, astronomers have just announced the latest dis…

December 17, 2018
Vietnam satellite hits the space station
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Vietnam satellite hits the space station

After 6 days of launching into orbit, 21h40 on Hanoi time, HTV-3 transport vessel approached ISS. When the transport vessel is at a distance of 10m from the station, the…

December 17, 2018