China on Tuesday released images of a Mars probe and rover which the country plans to send to the Red Planet within five years.China plans to send a spacecraft to orbit Mars, make a landing, and deploy a rover in July or August 2020, said Zhang Rongqiao, chief architect of the Mars mission at a press conference in Beijing. "The challenges we face are unprecedented."According to Ye Peijian, one of China’s leading aerospace experts and a consultant to the program, the 2020 mission will be launched on a Long March-5 carrier rocket from the Wenchang space launch center in south China’s H...
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After losing communication with a space probe two years ago, NASA says it has reestablished contact.NASA said it lost contact with the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, known as the STEREO-B spacecraft, on Oct. 1, 2014, but that on Aug. 21, the Deep Space Network (DSN) established a link with the craft.Contact with the probe was lost after a maneuver to try to prevent overheating of the ship’s antenna.STEREO-B is the sister craft to STEREO-A, both of which were launched in 2006 to study the sun and space weather. The spacecrafts have contributed greatly to the understanding of coronal...
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A group of senior students from Zhejiang University have successfully developed an "air hand-washing device." The device utilizes an infrared ray induction system, which detects the presence of hands. A tap then sprays a light water mist along with a strong gust of air, which the students have proven to be nearly as effective as traditional hand-washing. However, the device uses only 10 percent of the water that regular hand-washing does.Li Qizhang, a member of the team that developed the device, told a reporter from thepaper.cn that a model of their device has already been installed...
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Next month, U.S. President Barack Obama will make what is expected to be his last official trip to Asia.The White House announced Thursday that the president will travel to China on Sept. 2 to attend the G20 summit in Hangzhou.He then will go on to Laos, making him the first U.S. president to visit that Southeast Asian nation.In China, Obama will focus on the importance of a level playing field and broad-based economic opportunity, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.He also will hold meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as tensions continue to rise in the region over the Sout...
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China has launched the world’s first satellite into orbit using a technology to send communications back to Earth that it hopes will be secure from hackers.The satellite was launched into space Tuesday from a military base in Gansu province in the northwest Gobi Desert.The 600-plus-kilogram satellite, dubbed Micius after a 5th century B.C. Chinese philosopher and scientist, will circle the Earth every 90 minutes.Light particles will be fired at Micius to determine if quantum physics will permit the secure encryption of long-range communication.The official Xinhua news agency said that during t...
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