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Stonehenge is the royal cemetery?
AFP cited the results of a recent study showing that the mysterious British Stonehenge relics used to be a part of extremely important characters, possibly the reigning…
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American astronauts walk outside the space to install high-resolution cameras
These cameras are designed to make it easier to dock the International Space Station (ISS) of future commercial trains.
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The center of the Milky Way may contain thousands of black holes
Scientists at the University of Colombia, USA discovered 12 black holes in the center of the Milky Way, or the Milky Way, AFP reported yesterday.
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Stop all communications with Philae probe
On July 27, told AFP news agency from the ground checkpoint in Cologne, Mr. Andreas Schuetz of DLR German Aeronautics Agency said all contact information for the Philae…
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After two months of delay, Russia launched a ship carrying people to space
Russia's Soyuz rocket carried three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday successfully launched from Baikonur space airport, Kazakhstan.
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Russia successfully launched Proton-M missile
Russia on September 28 successfully launched the rocket that Proton-M put a satellite into orbit, in the first launch after the May failure, AFP said.
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Galileo satellites went in the wrong direction because of freezing fuel
Freezing fuel on Russia's Soyuz missile caused two satellites of Europe's Galileo global positioning system to fly wrongly in August.
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First picture sent by Indian spacecraft
India's spacecraft sent to Earth the first photos of Mars with the surface formed by craters.
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European spacecraft approaches a duck-shaped comet
Following the 10-year-long 6-billion-kilometer journey, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft finally reached a comet on August 6.
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SpaceX Falcon rocket launcher
A small spacecraft designed to travel in space by solar energy is scheduled to be introduced into space from SpaceX boosters in 2016.
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Japan is about to launch a global disaster observation satellite
Japan is scheduled to launch a satellite observing the Earth on May 24, to use it to investigate the damage caused by natural disasters and changes affecting tropical ra…
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Bolivia launches satellites in China
AFP quoted Ivan Zambrana - director of Bolivia's National Space Agency, said the country's first satellite satellite project started in 2009.
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The Soyuz spacecraft returned safely to the Olympic torch
Russia's Soyuz spacecraft on 11 November brought three astronauts back after a mission of 166 days, and brought the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic torch back to earth.
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India moved on the launch of the Mars probe
India on October 22 decided to postpone the launch of its first Mars probe until November 5, due to problems with the marine tracking system, according to AFP.