11 September 2017
Leonard David gives an excellent overview on the upcoming Chang'e 5 lunar mission for the online-magazine of "Scientific American". He tried to find answers to the questions when the launch might take place, which launcher will be used, how will China investigate the gained lunar material and who else will be able to participate in the research.
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12 September 2017
An international research team led by Chinese astronomers revealed an evidence of dynamical dark energy. The discovery, recently published on Nature Astronomy, with a News & Views article written by a world expert on cosmology, found that the nature of dark energy may not be the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein 100 years ago, which is crucial for the study of dark energy. The new study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship.
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13 September 2017
China's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou 1, completed an automated fast-docking with Tiangong 2 space lab on 12 September at 23:58 h. Controlled from Earth, Tianzhou 1 began to approach Tiangong 2 at 15:24 h. It took six and a half hours to complete the fast-docking with the space lab. It was the third docking between the two spacecraft using fast-docking technology. Previously, it took about two days to dock. The experiment tested the cargo spacecraft's capability of fast-docking, laying a foundation for future space station building.
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13 September 2017
Experts at Russia’s “science town” (Akademgorodok) in Novosibirsk have submitted three applications to conduct experiments in the zero-gravity condition at China’s planned space station. The US and Russian scientists plan to start their minimum temperature creation experiments at the International Space Station, a joint US-Russian space project, at the end of this year, said the deputy director of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures (JIHT) of Russian Academy of Sciences.
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