and she used the robotic arm to retrieve a satellite as _6.astronautIt was a pity that she missed her _7 mission into space because of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.◆In 8_, she spent 343 hours in space, which is over 14 days.The rest ofAfter _9 from NASA, she wo...
company to develop and launch a radar satellite for commercial markets. “Today’s launch represented many firsts for American aerospace,” said Curt Blake, president of Spaceflight, the leading rideshare provider. “Spaceflight’s SSO-A mission launched the largest number of satell...
A Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket carrying four meteorological satellites blasted off at 7:20 p.m. Beijing Time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Friday. The satellites successfully entered their designated orbit, marking the first win for China's space program in 2024. Th...
Sputnik 1.It was an event that galvanized the world and spurred the fledglingU.S. space effortinto high gear. No one who was alive at that time can forget the electricity of the moment when humans first lofted a satellite into orbit. The fact that it was the U.S.S...
The last of six tiny satellites that were rocketed into space 14 years ago—and then went on to prove that the wealth of accurate atmospheric data that can be gleaned from existing GPS signals can improve operational weather forecasts—was officially dec
Yuanwang-5, China's third-generation space observation ship, left the dock of the China Satellite Maritime Tracking and Control Department in east China's Jiangsu Province for its first maritime measurement and control mission. Earlier, Yuanwang-5 completed a 50-day technical transformat...
[01:05.96]any crewed mission has reached [01:08.68]since the American space agency NASA's [01:12.36]Apollo program ended in the early 1970s. [01:18.00]Second, two crew members [01:20.56]completed spacewalks during the...
Last but not least, the mission aims to testStarlink—SpaceX’s satellite-based internet—from a spacecraft, as a way to provide internet connectivity even away from Earth. Similar to Inspiration4, the mission is also raising funds forSt. Jude Children’s Hospital, and Mennon will stream hers...
BEIJING, April 27 (Xinhua) --China's Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite, sent into space in January this year, has captured its first in-orbit detection images, which were presented at a parallel forum of the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing on Saturday. ...
Since humans sent the first satellite (卫星) to space in the 1950s, scientists have been studying an important topic: how to grow plants in space if humans live there one day. A recent experiment at the Tiangong space station makes a big step forward. ...