China, Japan race for the moon
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Japan claims its project is the biggest since Apollo. China says it is readying its probes to study the lunar surface to plan a landing.
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A Japanese spacecraft touted to be the largest aimed at the moon since NASA&#39;s Apollo era rocketed into space late Thursday on an ambitious mission to study the origins of Earth&#39;s nearest neighbor.
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China will launch its first unmanned mission to the Moon later this year, a senior space official confirms.
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The contest calls for entrants to land a rover on the moon that can travel at least 500 meters and send data.
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China and Japan pledged on Friday to build on their rapidly warming ties, as Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda met the Chinese leadership, but a dispute over maritime gas fields remained unresolved.
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All systems are finally go for Japan's first lunar orbiter, which is scheduled for launch on August 16, officials announced yesterday.
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A lunar orbiter that Japan had planned to launch this year could face further delays, possibly until next year or later, because of a funding shortfall and problems developing the probe's information-gathering capabilities, Japan's space agency said Wednesday.
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BEIJING, Oct. 24 -- China launched a satellite rocketing toward lunar orbit Wednesday evening, the latest step in an ambitious national program to send more men into space, build a space station and eventually land Chinese astronauts on the moon.
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Embarking on an ambitious 10-year moon exploration program, China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday Â a leap forward in the Asian space race that gave a boost to national pride, and the promise of scientific and military payoffs.
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By Greg Autry  China recently shot down an aging Chinese weather satellite  --  a signal that China will not abide by the doctrine of U.S. space superiority outlined in the new National Space Policy released in October by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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China on Sunday launched a satellite that will carry out land surveying and other scientific projects for several days and return to Earth, government media reported.
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The next decade will see nations scrambling to build outposts on the moon with each adapting different strategies to use it as a base to explore space, according to scientists attending a conference on lunar exploration.
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The competition between the country&#39;s two satellite radio companies began as a race to the stars, with each fighting to be the first to launch satellites into space.
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China will launch its first lunar probe this week in a key step toward building the basis for future space exploration, an official said Monday.
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China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday, the first step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to earth
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Beijing is trying to position itself as a space benefactor to countries whose natural resources it covets here on earth.
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China will launch a record number of spacecraft this year, state media reported Tuesday, amid a rise in tensions among world powers over the militarisation of space.