Topic: Space Technology
The US space agency is developing a high-tech harpoon that could one day pierce a comet and grab samples for scientists on Earth to study for hints about how the universe formed.The idea borrows on a concept developed by the European Space ...
One of the last surviving architects of the Soviet space programme that put Yuri Gagarin into orbit half a century ago died on Wednesday, officials said. He was 99.Boris Chertok, who helped design the country's first ballistic missiles, was a close colleague ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A private company will make a trial cargo run to the International Space Station in February, a key step in a new U.S. program to buy spaceflight services on a commercial basis, NASA said on Friday.California-based Space ...
China's post office is hoping to boost business by allowing customers to send letters postmarked from space.Emails will be sent to a computer aboard Tiangong-1, a spacecraft currently orbiting the earth, and rerouted to a special China Space Post Office branch on ...
A checklist used to guide the wounded Apollo 13 spacecraft home after the explosion that led to the famed "Houston, we've had a problem" call sold at auction in Texas for just under $390,000.The checklist booklet contains handwritten calculations by Commander James ...
A Russian Proton-M rocket completed the successful launch Saturday of an advanced Chinese communications satellite that should help expand television coverage in parts of Southeast Asia.The Roscosmos space agency said the AsiaSat 7 satellite was placed in its designed orbit at 0423 ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday it had been unable to establish a new link with Russia's stricken Mars probe but added that the craft's orbit seemed to have become more stable.ESA's tracking station in Perth, Western Australia monitored the ...
Russia on Thursday announced its scientists had for the first time made contact with its stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt, a day after the European Space Agency said it had received a signal."A signal from the probe has been received and some telemetry ...
Engineers fought desperately on Wednesday to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft after the Martian probe sent "a first sign of life" more than two weeks after being stranded in orbit.After days of frustrating silence, contact with the probe was made on Tuesday at ...
China placed two satellites in orbit on Sunday, including a spacecraft that will collect and relay data for disaster relief efforts, state press reported.The two satellites were successfully launched aboard a Long March carrier rocket, China's main space launch vehicle, from northwest ...
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