NEW DELHI, May 5 (Xinhua) -- In its biggest space diplomacy push, Indian launched a South Asia communication satellite on Friday from the spaceport of Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
China launched a carbon dioxide monitoring satellite via a Long March-2D rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert at 3:22 a.m. Thursday.
The Tiangong II space laboratory released its companion satellite, Banxing-2, at 7:31 am on Sunday.
Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un has guided a ground jet test of a new-type high-powered engine of carrier rocket for geo-stationary satellite, the official news agency KCNA reported Tuesday.
India Thursday launched its advanced weather satellite INSAT-3DR from the spaceport of Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
Locating people living in poverty, such as through door-to-door surveys, sometimes is difficult and even dangerous on the African continent, and scientists are now turning to satellite images.
China successfully launched the world's first quantum satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gobi Desert at 1:40 a.m. on Tuesday.
Amid the intense preparations for the launch of China's first quantum communication satellite, scientists hope it can help unravel one of the strangest phenomena in quantum physics -- quantum entanglement.
Technology is first step towards building unbreakable network of communications based on cutting-edge physics
China launched its second Shijian-16 series satellite on Wednesday.
The Chinese government on Thursday released a white paper elaborating on the action plan for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), which has been independently developed and operated by China.
China has been promoting international satellite navigation applications and will push forward the international development of China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), said a white paper issued on Thursday.
China launched a satellite to support its global navigation and positioning network at 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
China will put into space five new satellites within about five years as part of the country's fast-expanding space science program, a national science chief said on Wednesday.
China launched a new civilian high-resolution mapping satellite on Monday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province.
China will launch its first experimental quantum communication satellite in July, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Friday.
U.S. space firm SpaceX on Friday successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean after launching a commercial communications satellite into orbit for a Thailand company.
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