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Feature: The masters behind China's lunar rover Jade Rabbit
Mar 06, 2014 (XNA)
In contrast to how much of an influence the virtual persona of China's first moon rover has made on social media home and abroad, little is known about the peop...
China has no plans for lunar base project
Mar 06, 2014 (XNA)
The world's third country to soft-land on the moon has no plan to build a lunar base there, a leading scientist of China's lunar probe mission told Xinhua Satur...
China capable of exploring Mars
Mar 06, 2014 (XNA)
China has the capability of exploring the planet Mars, Ye Peijian, a top scientist with the Chang'e-3 program, the country's lunar probe mission, told Xinhua on...
Preparation for Chang'e-5 launch on schedule
Mar 06, 2014 (XNA)
Preparation for the 2017 launch of China's lunar probe Chang'e-5 is going as planned, the country's leading space scientist Ye Peijian told Xinhua on Saturday. ...
The Next Tiangong
Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)
In 2015, China is expected to launch its next space laboratory. Tiangong 2 will follow on from the Tiangong 1 module, which was launched in 2011 and is still in...
No Call for Yutu
Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)
Well over a week since daylight returned to its landing site, China's Yutu Moon rover seems to be damaged beyond any practical use. That's the only reliable con...
What's up, Yutu
Feb 17, 2014 (SPX)
It's been a few days since China said that the embattled Yutu Moon rover had sent a transmission back to Earth. Yutu suffered a mechanical anomaly roughly four ...
China's Jade Rabbit rover comes 'back to life'
Feb 13, 2014 (AFP)
China's troubled Jade Rabbit lunar rover has survived a bitterly cold 14-day lunar night, officials said Thursday, prompting hopes it can be repaired after suff...
Yutu Awakes
Feb 13, 2014 (SPX)
After a considerable delay and some highly vague statements, China has indicated that the Yutu Moon rover is transmitting telemetry to Earth. This is a highly e...
Farewell to Yutu
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
By now, it seems almost certain that China's Yutu Moon rover has died a premature death in the cold lunar night. The rover has been exposed to sunlight for a fe...
Moon plays trick on Jade Rabbit
Feb 04, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Troubles plaguing China's Yutu (Jade Rabbit) moon rover are yet another reminder to mankind of how difficult lunar exploration is. In 2016, Russia is planning t...
Waiting for Yutu
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
It's been more than a week since China's first robot lunar rover developed some serious mechanical problems. It was unable to fold one of its two solar panels i...
Netizens extend blessings to troubled lunar rover
Jan 27, 2014 (XNA)
Tens of thousands of Chinese netizens have sent their blessings to lunar rover Yutu (Jade Rabbit) after it experienced major trouble. A mechanical control abnor...
'Goodnight, humans': Says Yutu As The Sun Sets
Jan 27, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese Internet users flooded the country's social media networks on Monday with condolences for the troubled Jade Rabbit moon rover, which experienced a "mech...
Extra Time for Tiangong
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is alive and well in orbit. For most spacecraft, that's a nominal state. But for this mission, it's strange. Tiangong 1 was ...
Official: China's space policy open to world
Jan 13, 2014 (XNA)
Xu Dazhe, the new chief of China's space industry, is seeking more international cooperation in Washington less than a month after his country's first successfu...
China's moon rover continues lunar survey after photographing lander
Dec 23, 2013 (XNA)
China's first moon rover, Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, continued patrol explorations on the lunar surface after taking photos of the lander for the fifth and final tim...
China launches communications satellite for Bolivia
Dec 21, 2013 (XNA)
China successfully sent a Bolivian communications satellite into orbit with its Long March-3B carrier rocket from southwest Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 0...
Chinese sci-fi writers laud moon landing
Dec 17, 2013 (XNA)
The landing of China's first moon rover on the lunar surface on Sunday morning has had the nation's sci-fi writers cheering for fiction's gradual unfolding into...
Deep space monitoring station abroad imperative
Dec 17, 2013 (XNA)
China needs to build a deep space monitoring station abroad because the existing network is not capable of tracking deep space detectors round the clock, a lead...
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