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Voyager 2 Explorer: Discovery of the Curved Solar System
On December 10, scientists announced that the new observation of Voyager 2 discovered that the solar system is asymmetrical, possibly interfering in the interstellar mag…
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Brazil, Argentina successfully launched missiles into space
On December 17, the world was shaken by the news that the two South American countries Brazil and Argentina successfully launched the VS30 rocket to bring scientific res…
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Americans make the 100th walk out of space
On December 18, two American astronauts Peggy Whitson and Daniel Tani, on duty on the International Space Station (ISS), made the 100th space walk.
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Mars is approaching the Earth
Mars and Earth are at the stage of getting close together. By December, every hour, the distance between the two planets will decrease by 35,400km. So NASA chose June to…
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Korea: Coming to space
The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Korean Space Research Institute on December 25 selected the last two to send to Russia for training, preparing to fly to t…
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Test the BLAST balloon balloon in the South Pole sky
Canada and three partner countries, the United States, Britain and Mexico, have conducted an experiment in the South Pole sky. The 2,000kg heavy telescope called BLAST h…
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NASA postponed launching Discovery ship for weather reasons
According to the plan, the launch of Discovery ship with the mission of STS - 116 takes place at the launch platform 39B of Kennedy, Florida Space Station on 935 pm on D…
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Successfully launched Space Shuttle Discovery
The US shuttle Discovery was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first night launch of the ship in the past 4 years at 20 hours 47 local time on Dece…
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NASA has not yet successfully installed a new solar cell for the ISS
On the night of December 13, astronauts on the Space Shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station (ISS) were unsuccessful in winding up the entire 35-meter-long…
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NASA is about to launch Discovery ship to rebuild ISS
The US space agency (NASA) announced on December 7 that it will launch the Space Shuttle Discovery, a week earlier than originally planned. According to experts, 7-12 is…
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Discovery ship astronauts are not allowed to welcome the eve
The STS-116 astronauts taking off in December will not celebrate the new year on the space shuttle Discovery. The NASA agency even thought of launching one day earlier t…
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Atlantis space shuttle is ready to take off on August 27
Space Agency NASA has just confirmed that the Atlantis space shuttle is ready to take off from August 27 in the first mission in order to resume the construction of the…
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Russia launches global positioning satellite
Itar-Tass news agency quoted Alexei Kuznetsov, the spokesperson for the Russian Space Agency, said the Proton-K rocket carried three GLONASS satellites leaving the launc…
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EU launched the first satellite in Galileo satellite system
The European Union (EU) said yesterday it will launch its first satellite in Galileo satellite system in December. The preparations for the launch of the satellite are n…
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SpaceX's boosters fell into the sea during a supply flight to ISS
SpaceX's announcement said the Falcon 9 rocket had left the launch pad on December 5 (local time), dawn on December 6 (Vietnam time) at the launch site 40, Cape Canavera…