Spaceflight

20 Dec 2012

China successfully put a controversial Turkish spy satellite into orbit yesterday, capping off an intense, failure-free year for the Chinese space programme that also saw its first manual space...

10:29AM

Roadworks damage Russian space communications

16 Nov 2012

Russia lost the ability to send basic commands to most of its satellites and a segment of the International Space Station (ISS) following a cable failure near Moscow.

3:47AM

Briefs, November 11, 2012

11 Nov 2012

Shenzhou X launch set for June

5:36AM

Talking points

8 Nov 2012

Korean rocket countdown … again

2:08AM

Brightman's star rockets to space on Russian ship

11 Oct 2012

British singer Sarah Brightman has bought a ticket to fly on a Russian spaceship, in a quest to fulfil a childhood desire beyond her "wildest dreams".

1:36PM

SpaceX prepares for first Nasa resupply mission to space station

8 Oct 2012

Rocket maker SpaceX is poised to return to the International Space Station with its Dragon spacecraft to carry out the first contracted cargo resupply flight in Nasa's history.

4:43AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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4:27AM

Curiosity seeks evidence of microbes on Mars

At long last the big question may be answered: Is there life on Mars?

In one of the most daring space missions ever undertaken, Nasa landed its one-tonne rover, Curiosity, on Mars last...

3:04AM

Neil Armstrong: A giant legend for mankind

There are heroes and then there are those who transcend the accolade. The late Neil Armstrong, the first person to step foot on the moon, was one of that rarest of breeds.

4:53AM

Neil Armstrong, the first man to land on the moon, dies at 82

US President Barack Obama and astronaut Buzz Aldrin led tributes to the Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, lauding him as a reluctant but true American hero.

6:14AM

SPACE

Apollo 11's mission was a 'giant leap for mankind' - and cold war rivalry

At 9.32am on July 16, 1969, a 2,900-tonne Saturn V rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida carrying the Columbia lunar command module and the dreams of a generation.

11:57AM

Digging into China's first moon mission

A Chinese soup spoon inspired Professor Yung Kai-leung to design a robot tool to pick up rocks on the moon.

2:29PM

Rocket scientists' deaths revealed 16 years later

Mainland television viewers learned the names of two space scientists whose deaths were kept secret for 16 years for the first time last week.

1:54PM