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China has announced plans to land a rover on Mars before the end of the decade, according to state-owned news service Xinhua.
Beijing, Jul 22 (EFE/EPA) .- A Beijing shopping mall on Wednesday displayed a replica of the Tianwen-1, a Chinese Mars probe, which is expected to be launched before the end of July, according to the China Academy of Space Technology.SHOT LIST: A REPLICA OF MARS LANDER ON DISPLAY AT A SHOPPING MALL IN BEIJING, CHINA.
NASA is testing a new stationary lander called InSight for a planned mission to Mars in March 2016.The lander, which is equipped with two gallium arsenide solar array panels, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and land on Mars about six months later.
United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s brand new Vulcan rocket, carrying NASA’s first Peregrine Lunar Lander by private firm Astrobotic Technology, blasts off successfully for the first time from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. IMAGES
Images of police and journalists outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building, where Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is due to stand trial in the Chinese city on national security charges that could see him jailed for life. IMAGES
SpaceX's 'Starship' rocket, the largest ever built, takes off from the space company's Texas launch site. CEO Elon Musk hopes the ship will one day colonize Mars and NASA is awaiting a modified version to land humans on the Moon. The first test in April ended in a spectacular explosion over the Gulf of Mexico. IMAGES