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AFP/APP Washington: The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, which made history with the first ever spacewalk by non-government astronauts, is set to return to Earth on Sunday. Splashdown is scheduled for approximately 3:36 am Eastern Time…

AFP/APP Jiuquan: China will send a fresh crew to its Tiangong space station on Thursday evening, Beijing's Manned Space Agency announced, the latest mission in a programme that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030. The…

Xinhua/APP Xichang: A pair of satellites launched from southwest China have experienced abnormalities, the launch center said on Thursday. The satellites, known as DRO-A and DRO-B, were launched at 8:51 p.m. (Beijing Time) on…

AFP/APP Kennedy: Three American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off Sunday night from Florida for a six-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10:53 pm (0353 GMT Monday)…

AFP/APP Washington: A historic private mission to land on the Moon faced near-certain failure Monday after the spacecraft suffered a "critical loss" of fuel, dealing a major blow to America's hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar…

News Desk Islamabad: China's Shenzhou-15 astronauts will return to Earth on June 4, having finished all their scheduled tasks and also completing the country’s second in-orbit crew rotation. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA)…

AFP New Zealand: NASA launched two small satellites designed to track tropical cyclones hour by hour from a base in New Zealand on Monday in a project that could improve weather predictions for devastating storms. The new storm…

News Desk Hainan: China successfully sent three new satellites into space from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan on Monday. At 6 a.m. (Beijing Time), the satellites Shijian-23, Shiyan-22A…

Islamabad China on Thursday launched a Long March-3B carrier rocket, using it to place a new experiment satellite in space. The rocket blasted off at 12:43 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China…

News Desk Islamabad: China successfully launched a new Yaogan-34 series remote sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest Chinaat 09:38 a.m. on Tuesday. A Long March-4C rocket successfully…