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WATCH: Chinese space rocket accidentally takes off prematurely while testing and crashes into a hill within a minute
In an unexpected turn of events, Beijing-based aerospace company Space Pioneer conducted a static f…
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A Chinese firm's answer to SpaceX's Falcon 9 blew up in a giant fireball after it accidentally launched during a test
Tianbing Aerospace Technology said it was testing its rocket engine when the Tianlong-3 left the la…
Matthew Loh
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An astronomer who said that a SpaceX rocket part will hit the moon now says the object most likely came from a Chinese spacecraft
Astronomer Bill Gray said he had evidence that the rocket part due to hit the moon in March is a Ch…
Kate Duffy
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The Pentagon has its eye on the out-of-control Chinese rocket that is expected to crash into Earth — but it’s not anything to lose sleep over
Before that happens, people can check for daily updates on the location of the out-of-control …
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China's latest supersonic spy drone looks a lot like the Lockheed D-21 that crashed there in 1971
China's new WZ-8 supersonic drone resembles the Lockheed D-21, a supersonic reconnaissance drone th…
Benjamin Brimelow
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Telescope spots the Chinese Long March 5B rocket that is currently in an unstable orbit around Earth
A sky gazer in Italy, who is a part of the Virtual Telescope Project, has spotted the huge Chinese …
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China's clean energy sector is filling in a vacuum created by the nation's real-estate crash
Clean energy investment contributed to 40% of China's economic growth in 2023 as investments in the…
Aruni Soni
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The world can expect at least 2 repeats of the uncontrolled Chinese rocket crash, according to Europe's space agency
Upcoming missions could have a similar rain of metal debris to the one this weekend, which came dow…
Marianne Guenot
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The US has no plans to shoot down the Chinese rocket due to crash down this weekend, defense secretary says
The Long March 5B rocket took off from China on April 29, and a big chunk is now heading toward Ear…
Sinéad Baker
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The US is tracking an uncontrolled Chinese rocket traveling at 18,000 mph that is expected to crash down around May 8
The debris could land anywhere: Its location will be known only within "hours" of its reentry, the …
Marianne Guenot
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A Chinese satellite seems to have collided with a piece of a Russian rocket in March - the first big space crash in a decade
A Chinese satellite mysteriously broke apart earlier this year. A Harvard astronomer realized that …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Debris from a giant Chinese rocket booster is set to plummet uncontrollably to Earth, raining parts across unknown locations this weekend
Experts say a 25-ton piece from a Chinese rocket booster will crash down to Earth this weekend. No …
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body just avoided colliding in space and exploding into dangerous debris
In a collision, the satellites would have exploded into a cloud of dangerous, high-speed debris — a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's military is bulking up its helicopter fleet. Here's how it could use its new helos against Taiwan.
China's helicopters haven't gotten the same attention as its missiles or warships, but those helos …
Benjamin Brimelow
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China is allowing another rocket body to fall to Earth uncontrolled this weekend. It probably won't hit you.
China's Long March 5B rocket left its 23-ton core to fall to Earth uncontrolled. The forecast for d…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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Space debris that crashed in Australian farmland is likely from SpaceX, astrophysicist says
The debris, which was scattered across several fields, was scarred with scorch marks and had serial…
Marianne Guenot
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Video shows massive explosion as rocket debris from a Chinese space launch crashes down near houses
China has been accelerating its space program and launching satellites with indigenously made rocke…
Alex Lockie
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NASA administrator says China is failing to meet 'responsible standards' for space debris, after parts of an uncontrolled rocket landed in the Indian Ocean
NASA's chief has spoken out after pieces of the Long March 5B rocket launched by China fell back do…
Kevin Shalvey
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The US military didn't know if the missile that took out a Chinese spy balloon would work when an F-22 took the shot, commander says
The F-22 pilot fired a single AIM-9X Sidewinder missile to down the balloon, which was operating at…
Jake Epstein,Christopher Woody
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Chinese scientists say they're working on an anti-ship missile that can fly as high as an airliner and dive as deep as a submarine
The super-torpedo uses dangerous fuel and sounds similar to a Soviet system that was of questionabl…