A European spacecraft made it to the history books after landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet after travelling 4 billion in hopes to answer several of the most asked questions of the universe. The washing machine sized spacecraft landed after a ten year long journey that required precision and even the [...]
China is set to launch is latest lunar orbiter in the next few days their first attempt in sending a spacecraft around the moon and back to Earth. Although the spacecraft has still no name it will be launched from tomorrow until Sunday. This will be the first lunar module of China that has the [...]
The city is initiating a level-IV emergency response to help cope with the effects of Typhoon Kalmaegi which is so far the strongest typhoon to hit Shenzhen this year. Typhoon Kalmaegi is said to make landfall along the coast between Yangjiang City of Guangdong and Wanning of Hainan today. According to the Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory, [...]
According to a statement from China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei said that the country is planning to launch the Tiangong-2 space lab in 2016 and is scheduled to finish building the space station by 2022. Yang who is the vice director for the China Manned Space Engineering Office gave the statement during the Planetary Congress [...]
Hazy days are expected in the future as the city’s primary air pollutants will shift from ozone to PM 2.5 during the Autumn season. Cities in the Pearl River Delta including Guangzhou and Shenzhen has moderate air pollutions levels last week because of high concentrations of ozone. Previous data recorded showed that ozone was the [...]
The first three experimental modules for the planned China Space station is expected to be launched by 2018 along with two other sets that will be launched in 2020 and in 2022. These modules will help form a 60 ton space station. A spokesperson for the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a leading research expert [...]
From today until Friday heavy rains is said to hit the city again bringing the total rainy days in the city up to 18 for this month alone. The rainfall is said to be the heaviest from this afternoon and tomorrow night. The city meteorological observatory said that rainfall in some area might exceed 250 [...]
Yesterday’s heavy rain have caused trouble in Shenzhen as the rain forced flights to be delayed and to partially shut down the Guangzhou Shenzhen Expressway for about three hours and flooded around a hundred areas in the city as well. the rain is said to be the strongest torrential rain to hit Shenzhen since 2008 [...]
Strong rains have been felt around the city over the weekend causing delays or even cancellation of several flights out of Shenzhen. the heavy downpour also caused traffic and closures of several schools and coastal parks in the city. the heavy rain prompted the city meteorological observatory to issue its first red alert for rain [...]
China’s Jade Rabbit is finally showing signs of life after weeks of being dormant and experts are still working on finding the cause of its abnormality. A spokesperson for the lunar probe program said that the moon rover came back to life and has returned to its normal signal reception function and experts are now [...]
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