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Source: Xinhua Published: May 24, 2012 14:13
The Ziyuan III satellite, launched on Jan. 9 to produce high-resolution imagery for civilian use, has sent back visual data covering 45.79 million square km of the globe as of May 18, according to an announcement on Wednesday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 21, 2012 17:35
People in eastern Chinese regions saw an annular eclipse of the sun Monday morning, the longest eclipse in terms of duration for the next 1,000 years, according to astronomers' predictions.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 18, 2012 10:48
China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System has grown in popularity among fishermen, with nearly 70,000 people using its short message service (SMS), said an official from the system's management office.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 17, 2012 14:54
China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System, or Compass Navigation System, will be able to provide high-quality services to most users in the Asia-Pacific region this year, an unidentified official from the system's management office said Wednesday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 16, 2012 13:12
Vietnam's second satellite, the VINASAT-2, roared off the launch pad aboard an Ariane 5 rocket at 22:13 GMT Tuesday from Guiana Space Center at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, Vietnamese state-run news agency reported Wednesday.
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Source: AFP Published: May 16, 2012 00:15
Two Russians and an American yesterday blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Soyuz rocket in Russia's first manned space launch for almost five months.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 11, 2012 09:46
US space agency NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and relation to the terrestrial planets and Earth's moon.
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Source: Xinhua Published: May 06, 2012 17:26
China successfully launched its Tianhui I-02 mapping satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu province at 3:10 pm Sunday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 30, 2012 09:54
The Long March-3B rocket carrying two satellites blasts off from the launch pad at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on April 30, 2012. China successfully launched two satellites into space Monday morning, the 12th and 13th of its indigenous global n...
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 27, 2012 11:02
China's aerospace industry has been developed independently, Geng Yansheng, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, said at a press conference on Thursday.
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Source: AFP Published: April 24, 2012 23:45
SpaceX has postponed by a week its bid to become the first private company to attempt to launch an unmanned cargo vessel to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 24, 2012 16:48
Bright meteor with loud "booms" confirmed travel through Nevada, California skies
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 24, 2012 15:44
A US venture called Planetary Resources, Inc. plans to send swarms of robots to space to scout asteroids for precious metals and set up mines to bring resources back to Earth.
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 24, 2012 15:38
The first privately built spaceship launch to the International Space Station(ISS) has been delayed, the vehicle's US maker announced as quoted by media reports Tuesday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 20, 2012 10:53
Russia's Progress M-14M cargo spaceship undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, Russian Mission Control said.
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 20, 2012 10:07
US space agency NASA transferred Thursday space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, where it will go on permanent display.
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Source: Reuters - AFP Published: April 18, 2012 00:13
The shuttle Discovery, the most journeyed spacecraft of the now-retired American fleet, Tuesday made its final flight from Florida toward the Washington area museum where it will go on display.
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 11, 2012 13:10
The world's largest solar power plant, designed and manufactured by Austrian companies, began operation in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh recently after six months of trial operation, Austrian Press Agency (APA) reported on Tuesday.
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 10, 2012 13:48
The manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 was delivered to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday, a spokesman with the country's manned space program said.
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Source: Xinhua Published: April 02, 2012 09:26
Chinese astronomers said on Sunday that they had finished a new catalog with over 130,000 galaxy clusters.
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