NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’
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NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’

ByNews Polite

The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical issue caused a days-long communication stall between Earth and the farthest-ever recorded spacecraft. The Voyager has been floating further and further away since its historic launch in…

China’s new crew has arrived at space station in sign of growing influence in space field
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China’s new crew has arrived at space station in sign of growing influence in space field

ByNews Polite

A Chinese spaceship carrying a three-person crew docked with its orbiting space station Tuesday as the country seeks to expand its exploration of outer space in competition with the United States, even as it looks for cooperation from other nations. The team of two men and one woman will replace…

NASA ready for second attempt at lunar launch
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NASA ready for second attempt at lunar launch

ByNews Polite

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Saturday for a second try at launching NASA’s towering, next-generation moon rocket on its debut flight, hoping to have remedied engineering problems that foiled the initial countdown five days earlier. The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its…

China Opposes NASA Official’s Remark Calling Its Space Mission as a Military Program

China Opposes NASA Official’s Remark Calling Its Space Mission as a Military Program

ByNews Polite

China on Monday opposed remarks made by an official of NASA on its space program after the administrator of US space agency Bill Nelson said that Beijing’s space program is a “military” space program. Addressing a press briefing, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that it is not the…