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Russia launched TMA-06M onto the International Space Station
On October 23, Russia's Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft left Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, bringing two Russian astronauts and an American astronaut to the International Sp…
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Korea will launch the satellite after two failed attempts
Korea hopes to successfully launch a satellite into space on October 26 in a third attempt to join the group of Asian powers that master this technology, including China…
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The 84 million star image is at the center of the universe
On October 24, Chilean astronomers said that in a research program on the Milky Way, they created an image with about 84 million stars in the center of the universe.
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The first private spacecraft returned to Earth safely
The private spacecraft of California-based private company SpaceX has completed its first mission in 12 missions signed with NASA.
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Private spacecraft left Earth with the first shipment to ISS
The rocket of SpaceX private space company on October 7 left the launch pad, bringing the Dragon space compartment nearly half a ton of cargo to orbit the Earth, aiming…
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Dragon's first private spacecraft connected to ISS
On October 10, NASA announced that the Dragon cargo ship launched by the Space Technology Expedition Group (SpaceX) on October 7 successfully connected to the Station. I…
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Uncommonly rare spiral-shaped structure of cosmic dust
On October 10, astronomers announced a rare image of a cosmic dust structure and spiral gas surrounding a giant red star. This is the first such a structure discovered b…
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Successfully launched the micro-satellite of Vietnam
Five ultra-small CubeSat satellites, including F1 of Vietnam, were successfully launched into orbit on the night of October 4 (Vietnam time).
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Dragon ship left the launch pad on October 7
The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) and US SpaceX private company and international partners have decided to fly the second Dragon spacecraft to the International…
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New findings help prove the theory of black holes
American astronomers from the University of California (Los Angeles, UCLA, USA) on October 4 found that a star with orbit moves very close to the giant black hole in the…
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Solar storm is about to land on earth
Forecasting the end of September, early October 2012, some solar storms will
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SpaceX will bring the supply ship to ISS
NASA and SpaceX agreed on the departure date of the first Dragon resupply train to the International Space Station (ISS). The Dragon will be launched from Cape Canaveral…
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America's oldest 'satellite' falls to Earth
One of the first US satellites named Explorer 8 launched on October 3, 1960 after half a century of orbiting into the dense atmosphere on March 31.
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China plans to send people to the Moon
China first officially published a document about the intention to send people to the Moon, information in the US Financial Times said.
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Russian spacecraft 'has just fallen into the Pacific Ocean'
Russian scientists reported that the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft's debris had fallen into the Pacific on Sunday 15 October after failing to complete the mission to explore M…