China’s deep spacecraft will be guided by X-ray pulses from distant stars0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 18, 2016
The country is launching the first satellite in the world that won’t be guided from Earth.
On Oct 18th, Chinese astronauts onboard the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft docked with China’s new space station, the Tiangong 2.
A top U.S. general has issued a sobering warning that both China and Russia, given their years of emphasis on upgrading and renovating their space war arsenals, could, in the future, place the United States in a position of weakness if matters were to degenerate into a state of war between the countries.
The largest radio telescope in the world officially opened on Sunday, according to China’s official Xinhua News.
The Chinese space station Tiangong 1 is indeed failing and is slowly headed towards the Earth. While China’s first space laboratory will make a fiery reentry in the second half of 2017, its replacement has already left Earth, indicated Chinese officials.
China is speeding up efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South China Sea, one that may also serve a military purpose in the disputed waters.
China is planning to build an enormous particle accelerator twice the size and seven times as powerful as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, according to state media reports.
“There is overwhelming evidence from fossil records that China was populated with humans before the arrival of African settlers” – PROFESSOR LIU WU
Take a trip from Beijing’s International Airport into the centre of town and you’re more than likely to encounter familiar scenes of the capital’s smog problems.
Covering an area the size of 30 football pitches, China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) was officially completed this week, making it the largest radio telescope in the world.