Étiqueté : space

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Tiangong-1 smash preludes China’s big rental ambitions

With a bright flash and streaks of fire [that no one saw], a defunct Chinese spacecraft the size of a school bus shattered and burned to dust after hitting the Earth’s atmosphere at 8-kilometers per second. Pieces of it, including unknown fuel and metal components, landed northwest of Tahiti in the South Pacific at around…

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Twelve months under Trump: A scared location for protests

For 11 months, Oliver Harris’ life came to a near standstill as he waited to find out if he would be sent to prison for years over his alleged participation in a rally against US President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Harris, 28, was among more than 230 people rounded up and arrested by police on January…