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Catch the light from super-earth
Light from a planet twice the size of the Earth has reached Spitzer's lens in an event known as astronomical achievement by astronomers. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope c…
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Satellite Envisat officially retired
The European Aeronautics Agency (ESA) on May 9 officially announced the end of Envisat's mission, the world's largest environmental monitoring satellite, lost contact la…
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The Sun's magnetic field will polarize in May
The Yomiuri daily issued on April 21 led the source of Japan's National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ), saying that the electrodes on the two halves of the Sun's hemisp…
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Progress spacecraft connected with ISS
Russia's unmanned space transporter Progress M-15M arrived on April 22 successfully connecting to the International Space Station (ISS), AFP led information from the Mis…
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Capture the world's largest satellite image missing
The European Space Agency (ESA) said that on April 15, the French Pleiades observing satellite captured the image of Envisat's largest observation satellite, lost contac…
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Postpone the launch date of the first private spacecraft
The first private launch day Dragon was postponed for another week for the technical department to complete the necessary tests before it was sent to the International S…
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The meteorite mining company was born
A series of top US entrepreneurs set up a company to exploit precious metals and water on 9 meteorites near the earth. Planetery Resources, the name of the new company,…
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New initiative helps forecast earthquakes more accurately
It is an initiative of a satellite system to monitor seismic activity from space, to predict the possibility of earthquakes and volcanoes more accurately. This initiativ…
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GPS can alert tsunamis faster than today
The Global Positioning System (GPS) can provide tsunami warnings faster than the system currently deployed. This is confirmed by German researchers after learning about…
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Asteroids explode in California sky
The halo is thought to have been created by a small asteroid that is hitting the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 15 km / s (54,000 km / h), turning it into a blazing fi…
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India successfully launched the RISAT-1 satellite
On the morning of April 26, Indian scientists successfully launched the first radar imaging satellite produced by the country (Radar Imaging Satellite - RISAT-1). RISAT-…
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The Earth suffers from dozens of collisions with asteroids
One of the most popular scientific hypotheses today is that, 65 million years ago, an asteroid about 10 kilometers in diameter had hit the earth causing an extinction fo…
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Found a meteorite pattern falling in America
On April 26, US scientists announced that small meteorite fragments found in the northern state of California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weeken…
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Manufacturing satellites near the Sun.
Britain will lead the production of SolO closer to Earth than any current satellite. Equipped with telescope, camera, SolO will take pictures and perform measurements fr…
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Three astronauts from ISS return to Earth safely
These three included NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and two Russian astronauts, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin. They set foot on ISS on October 16, 2011. The three a…