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Broadcast: May 7, 2003 By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. We have news about two exploration d
By Cindy Saine Washington 14 February 2008 The Defense Department says it is planning to shoot down a defunct U.S. spy satellite before it is expected to hit the Earth in early March, because of potential danger to human beings from its unburned rock
By Peter Fedynsky Moscov 06 September 2007 Kazakhstan has suspended launches of the Russian Proton rocket at the Baikonur Space Center following a failed liftoff and loss of the payload, a Japanese communications satellite. VOA Moscow Correspondent P
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about a growing threat to airplanes around the world. And we hear about objects in space that are threatening satellites and the
Scientists Plan to Make 3-D Map of the Milky Way 科学家计划制作银河系的3d地图 From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. Im June Simms. And Im Jim Tedder. Today on the program, we tell about developments in space exploration
PlummetingUSSatellitetoHitEarthFriday NASA launched the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) 20 years ago this month. And now that bus-sized satellite is plunging toward Earth. Mark Matney, an orbital debris scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Ce
WASHINGTON, May 30 (Xinhua) -- After nearly 12 days together in orbit, U.S. space shuttle Endeavour(奋进号) undocked from the International Space Station on Sunday night, NASA announced on Monday. According to NASA, the undocking took place at 11:
BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- A defunct U.S. satellite is expected to crash down to Earth Friday, with nobody knowing where or when exactly it will hit. This was avoidable, a Chinese expert said Thursday. Pang Zhihao, a researcher from the Chinese Re
MOSCOW, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Space Forces has re-established contact with a military satellite, Geo-IK-2, which went missing in February, local media reported Friday. According to a spokesman from the Defense Ministry(国防部) , Interfa
JIUQUAN, Gansu, May 6 (Xinhua) -- China successfully launched its Tianhui I-02 mapping satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu province at 3:10 p.m. Sunday. The satellite, which was launched using a Long March 2-
Astronauts(宇航员) aboard the International Space Station have installed a new permanent storage unit, creating an additional 70 cubic meters of cargo space and a new venue in which to conduct experiments. Crew members on Tuesday used the space st
MOSCOW, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The main and backup(后备) crews that will fly to the International Space Station in June have passed preflight tests and are ready for space travel, the Russian Cosmonauts Training Center said Friday. The main crew includ
BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The successful launch of China's fourth manned spaceship paves the way for a future space station, which might subsequently benefits the world in space exploration. Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, carrying two males and one female
BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- China will launch an unmanned module next week, paving the way for a planned space station, a spokesman for the space program said on Tuesday. Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace 1, will blast off from Jiuquan Satellite La
TOKYO, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Japan's H-2A rocket carrying a new information gathering satellite was launched at the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Friday, local media reported. Japan has already introduced three information-gather
MOSCOW, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Russia successfully launched a Cosmos class military satellite on Monday, said spokesman of the Russian Space Forces Alexei Zolotukhin. A Soyuz-U carrier rocket carrying the military satellite blasted off from the Plesetsk
TEHRAN, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran is going to launch domestically- built Navid satellite by Safir satellite launcher by the end of March 2012, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Sunday. Navid (promise) is a research satellite and is current
MOSCOW, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket was launched on Friday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan with a Chinese communications satellite AsiaSat-7, according to Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos. Roscosmos' live
XICHANG, Sichuan, July 12 (Xinhua) -- China blasted off a new data relay satellite Tianlian I-02 on Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest Sichuan Province . The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket at 11:41 p.
Saturday's launch marks a key step towards China's plan to eventually operate a permanent space station, which is the final step of China's three-phased manned space program. The Long March-7 rocket has been designed as a cargo spacecraft, and is set