Launched 1 1/2 years ago, Europe and Japan’s Bepi-Colombo spacecraft passed within 8,000 miles (12,700 kilometers) of Earth. The closest approach occurred over the South Atlantic, with telescopes in Chile catching a glimpse of the speeding spacecraft. The gravity tug from Earth slowed ...
The Chang'e-6 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and a returner -- like its predecessor Chang'e-5 -- was launched on May 3. The lander-ascender combination, separated from the orbiter-returner combination on May 30, touched down at the designated landing area in the Sou...
A reusable experimental spacecraft successfully returned to its scheduled landing site on September 6. The spacecraft, launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, returned after 268 days of in-orbit operation....
China launched its Wentian space laboratory on Sunday afternoon, sending the country's largest-ever spacecraft to Earth's orbit to become part of the Tiangong space station. Encased in a 20.5-meter-long payload fairing, the space lab was carried by a Long March 5B rocket that blasted off at...
The $100 million mission couldn't afford its own rocket, so Beresheet hitched a ride on the SpaceX Falcon rocket, launched from Florida in February. In total, the spacecraft will traverse 6.5 million kilometers (about 4 million miles), among the longest distances ever traveled to t...
China launched its first manned spacecraft(航天飞机) into orbit(轨道) from the China Jiuquan Satellite Launch center in Northeast China's Gansu Province. The large, white long March Ⅱ-F rocket carrying a Shenzhou-V spacecraft and China's astronaut(宇航员) Yang Liwei rose up into deep space...
The spacecraft was launched to the ISS from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida last Thursday. The mission will provide valuable data toward NASA certifying Boeing's crew transportation system for regular flights with astronauts to and from the space station, said NASA.■...
China launched a large robotic spacecraft early Tuesday morning at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan province, 1 (task) it with landing on the moon and bringing back lunar samples, 44 years after such extraterrestrial substances (外星物质) 2 (bring) back to earth the...
【题目】阅读理解。A Chin a launched its first manned spacecraft(飞机) into orbit(轨道) from th e Chin a Jiuquan S t e Launch center in Northeast China's Gansu Pr e. T h e large, whit e long March l- F rocket carryi Shenzhou-V spacecraft and China's astronaut(宇Yang Liwei ros ...
See some of the first images from "Odie" on its way to the moon From CNN's Jackie Wattles The first images from the Odysseus lunar lander provided a view of Earth from space as the craft made its way to the moon. After being launched last week, the lander is aiming to land on the...