China's first high orbit remote sensing satellite, Gaofen-4, went into use after six months of in-orbit testing, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense announced. 国家国防科技工业局日前宣布,经过...
The first quantum communications satellite developed by China is expected to launch in July of this year. The BeijingShanghai quantum private communications line will also be opened in the second half of this year, according to Pan Jianwei, academic...
China successfully launched its first microgravity satellite, the SJ-10, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province Wednesday at 1:38 am. 周三凌晨1时38分,我国首颗微重力科学实验卫星实践十号在甘肃酒泉卫星发射...
SpaceX announced a successful satellite launch on Sunday but failed an attempted sea-landing of a rocket booster, missing a goal that has repeatedly eluded the grasp of the Los Angeles-based rocket company. 总部位于旧金山的火箭公司SpaceX上...
A U.S. military satellite detected a heat flash at the time a Russian jetliner crashed over the Sinai Peninsula last weekend, authorities said Tuesday, but the cause of the accident remains a mystery. Authorities have ruled out the possibility that a...
Passengers on China's flights can now watch live TV programs as a domestically-developed satellite TV system has come into service, the country's flag carrier Air China said on Sunday. 中国国航在周日上午正式对外宣布:飞机上的乘客现...
Science and Technology The military uses of space Spooks in orbit 科技 太空军事用途 轨道间谍卫星 The other space programme 另类太空计划 DESPITE its strong inheritance of military DNA (much of it, somewhat counterintuitively, comin...
Beijing is asking Washington to provide more information about the destruction of a U.S. satellite. CNN's John Vause reports Officials in Beijing have been choosing their words carefully, playing up their concern about any harm the satellite shoot-d...
The Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled spy satellite to prevent a potential deadly gas leak, officials said. Upon notification of the descending NRO satellite, the President and his national and homeland security advisors reviewed the options a...
Huygens Spacecraft Arrives at Saturn Moon “慧更斯”号抵达土星卫星 After a seven-year ride to Saturn on the U.S. Cassini spacecraft, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe is finally at...