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Feline frontier: NASA sends HD cat video from deep space
AFP, Published on 19/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 31 million kilometres from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video.
New rockets set to launch in 2024
AFP, Published on 15/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - Several new European and American rockets are set for blast off in 2024, at a time the aerospace industry faces a shortage of launch vehicles fueled by the rise of satellite constellations.
From the Israel-Gaza war to the Moon race: Events that defined 2023
AFP, Published on 29/11/2023
» PARIS - From Hamas's brutal attacks in Israel, and the fierce retribution it provoked, to the kiss that caused a revolt in Spanish football, here are 10 events that marked a tumultuous 2023:
Astronaut who led humanity's first mission around the Moon dead at 95
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut who led the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon, has died at the age of 95, the US space agency said Thursday.
China launches new mission to space station
AFP, Published on 26/10/2023
» JIUQUAN (CHINA) - China sent a fresh crew to its Tiangong space station on Thursday, in the latest mission for a growing space programme that plans to send people to the Moon by 2030.
China to send youngest-ever crew to space station
AFP, Published on 25/10/2023
» JIUQUAN (CHINA) - China will send its youngest-ever crew of astronauts to the Tiangong space station this week, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing pursues plans for a manned mission to the Moon by the end of the decade.
NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon
AFP, Published on 12/10/2023
» HOUSTON - A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on Earth was seeded from outer space.
Two Russians, American reach space station
AFP, Published on 16/09/2023
» BAIKONUR (KAZAKHSTAN) - Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut docked with the International Space Station on Friday after blasting off from Baikonur amid raging tensions between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine.
NASA spots new Moon crater
AFP, Published on 01/09/2023
» WASHINGTON - NASA has spotted a small new crater on the Moon that was probably caused by the crash-landing of a Russian probe on the surface around two weeks ago.
Indian rover begins exploring on Moon
AFP, Published on 24/08/2023
» India began exploring the Moon’s surface with its rover on Thursday, a day after it became the first country to land a craft near the largely unexplored lunar south pole.