Topic: East Asia
Two volunteers cut off from the rest world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the dramatic half-way point of their experimental "voyage" to the Red Planet.Outfitted in heavy white space suits and clunky boots, the ...
US and French defense chiefs plan to sign a space cooperation agreement on Tuesday designed to help track debris in outer space threatening vital satellites, officials told AFP.The accord follows the unveiling of a new US space security policy last week that ...
China is developing "counterspace" weapons that could shoot down satellites or jam signals, a Pentagon official said Friday as the United States unveiled a 10-year strategy for security in space."The investment China is putting into counterspace capabilities is a matter of concern ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A robotic Japanese cargo ship reached the International Space Station on Thursday, the first of a quartet of spaceships due to arrive at the orbital outpost over the next month.The ship, laden with supplies, science equipment and ...
A Japanese rocket successfully took an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station into orbit, according to Japan's space agency.The H-IIB rocket took off from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan on schedule at 2:37 pm (0537 GMT) on Saturday. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The prospects for cooperation between the United States and China in space are fading even as proponents say working together in the heavens could help build bridges in often-testy relations on Earth.The idea of joint ventures in space, including ...
Despite its shoestring budget, Japan's space programme has boldly reached for the stars, pioneering solar-powered galactic travel, exploring a distant asteroid and planning a robot base on the Moon.The past year has seen Japan's space agency JAXA chalk up several world firsts, ...
A Japanese space probe has hurtled past Venus after failing to enter the planet's orbit as planned, the space agency said Wednesday, but it voiced hope for a successful rendezvous six years from now.The "Akatsuki", or "Dawn" probe, blasted off in May ...
Japanese probe of Venus fails to enter orbit, may have overshot the planetA Japanese probe sent on a two-year mission to Venus failed to enter orbit and may have flown passed the planet, space agency officials said Wednesday.The probe, called Akatsuki, which ...
An interplanetary probe intended to go into orbit around Venus has failed in its mission, Japan's space agency said Wednesday, 200 days after it left Earth."Akatsuki", or "Dawn", was intended to be the first Japanese satellite to orbit a planet other than ...
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