Topic: Space Technology
China's unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou VIII returned to Earth on Thursday, state media reported, after completing two space dockings that have pushed forward the nation's ambitious space programme.The vessel's re-entry module landed in the northern region of Inner Mongolia after it separated from ...
China completed its second space docking on Monday, state media reported, as it moves closer towards fulfilling its ambition to set up a manned space station.The move comes 12 days after the Asian nation successfully completed its first ever "kiss" in space, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The sun's abundant energy, if harvested in space, could provide a cost-effective way to meet global power needs in as little as 30 years with seed money from governments, according to a study by an international scientific group.Orbiting power ...
Efforts to resume contact with a Russian space mission to Mars stuck in Earth orbit after launch have failed and the probe must be considered lost, Interfax news agency reported Saturday."All attempts to obtain telemetric information from the Phobos-Grunt probe and activate ...
Men walked on the Moon, but women will be among the pioneering explorers who someday step foot on Mars, said a gathering of top female space experts this week.Plenty has changed since Neil Armstrong and 11 male successors left their footprints on ...
Increasingly gloomy Russian scientists failed in repeated attempts on Thursday to give a vital boost to a pioneering Mars probe that got stuck in a low Earth orbit and now threatens to crash within days.The unmanned Phobos-Grunt spacecraft lost its course to ...
An unmanned Russian spacecraft on a mission to a Mars moon failed Wednesday to find the right course to the red planet, a potentially devastating blow to Moscow's hopes of resuming planetary exploration.The Phobos-Grunt probe blasted off successfully from the Baikonur cosmodrome ...
Two US congressmen blasted the White House and NASA for "dangerous" cooperation with China, saying technology transfer has greatly enhanced Beijing's space and missile capability.Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher warned of a ballooning national security threat brought about by what he described as ...
Russia on Sunday launched its first supply ship destined for the International Space Station since the embarrassing loss of a similar vessel in August raised questions about its space programme.The unmanned Progress spacecraft took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia hopes to end a humiliating two-decade absence from deep space with the launch on Wednesday of an ambitious three-year mission to bring back a soil sample from Mars' moon Phobos.Russian scientists have dreamed of probing the Red Planet's ...
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