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Earth 360°: Documentary about space exploration

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The first-ever panoramic video filmed in outer space, produced 
by RT in collaboration with Russian cosmonauts, has won a prestigious 
prize for the best use of virtual reality at the annual Shorty Awards 
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The most immersive way to experience a spacewalk, short of going on one yourself, is the <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://shortyawards.com/10th/spacewalk-360" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">video</a></span>
 that captures a breathtaking view of the planet Earth, complete with 
swirling clouds and blue seas, contrasted against the blackness of 
space. The two cosmonauts outside the International Space Station are 
not there to simply chill out either – you can witness them hard at 
work, performing maintenance on equipment outside the hull. They also 
launch miniature satellites – by hand – to take measurements in 
low-Earth orbit.<br />
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Check out our 360° video on your mobile device, opening it 
with the YouTube or Facebook app.<br />
The RT360 app is also available for 
download<b> (<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/rt-360/id1064016992" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rt.RT360" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Android</a>).</span></b><br />
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 produced its video in collaboration with the Russian space agency and 
RSC Energia. It initially premiered in early October 2017, during a 
special event at a VR theater at Moscow’s Museum of Cosmonautics, 
commemorating the launch of Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite of
 Earth. Numerous other 360 videos – from breathtaking nature, to 
thunderous military parades, to the unique project Revolution in 360 – 
are available in the <a href="https://www.rt.com/360/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">collection</a>.<br />
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Earth 360°: Documentary about space exploration

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Are ALIENS monitoring NASA? Footage emerges of two 'UFOs' hovering near International Space Station

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<span id="ext-gen124" style="font-size: 1.2em;">Could this be further proof that aliens are monitoring NASA?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Unearthly <a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9RcRm2RlzM" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">footage </a>appears
 to show two UFO's hovering near the International Space Station - 
convincing many that life in outer space does indeed exist.</span></div>
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YouTube by Streetcap1 and has been pored over by multiple UFO 
enthusiasts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">UFO expert Scott Waring is certain the video proves that aliens are using the craft to monitor the space station.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The first UFO is smaller… which tells me it's father away than the second larger UFO,' he explains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Notice
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Another viewer added: 'Something is blocking that pic, to the left and top! NASA don't want you to see!'</span></div>
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because they can't censor enough of what is showing up without making 
the truth obvious in and of itself, so they are closing the public feed 
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Most significant scientific projects that put China on the map

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<b>Here are some of China’s most significant scientific projects.</b><br />
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<b>The super-telescope</b><br />
As symbols of scientific power, this takes some beating.<br />
The 
Five-Hundred-Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is a vast 
radio telescope which is substantially larger than the next largest one,
 the Aricebo Observatory, in Puerto Rico, with a diameter of 305 metres.<br />
The telescope, which is the size of 30 football pitches, has been built 
into a natural crater in the south-western province of Guizhou.<br />
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The Five-Hundred-Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope<br />
Image: Xinhua news agency<br />
The final touches are now being made to the $180 million project before it officially opens in September.<br />
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The telescope is effectively a giant ear, listening for radio waves 
emitted by objects in deepest space. Because the waves have travelled 
for great distances in space they are incredibly weak, which is why 
bigger really is better.<br />
The telescope will help scientists learn more about how the universe was
 formed as well as searching for new stars and any signs of 
extraterrestrial life.<br />
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<b>The Mars probe</b><br />
China isn’t just keeping an eye (and ear) on the heavens, it has a very active space programme too.<br />
In fact, China’s space age started in 1970 when its first satellite Dongfanghong 1 was sent into orbit.<br />
Since then there have been more satellites, rockets and, in 2003, the first taikonauts, as China calls its astronauts.<br />
In 2013 China landed the first probe on the moon for nearly 40 years.<br />
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Moon landing<br />
Image: Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Space Administration<br />
The country plans to send another probe to the moon in 2018 but, more 
ambitiously still, has committed to sending a mission to Mars by 2021.<br />
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Wu Weiren, chief designer of China’s moon and Mars mission, <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36085659" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">told the BBC</a>: "We will orbit Mars, land and deploy a rover, all in one mission."<br />
While the budgets for the US and Russian space programmes have shrunk 
considerably since their heyday during the Cold War, funding for China’s
 space programme is rising.<br />
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<b>The space station</b><br />
While many of the world’s space agencies, such as NASA, ESA and 
Roscosmos, are civilian organizations, China’s space programme is 
military.<br />
And that means taikonauts cannot currently go to the International Space
 Station as the US says it fears sharing its technology could result in a
 breach of America’s national security.<br />
China’s solution? It is building a space station of its own. A prototype
 space lab, Tiangong-2, will launch this year, and a larger version will
 follow.<br />
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What the Tiangong-2 will look like<br />
Image: People’s Daily<br />
That China is able to go it alone with a project of this size shows just
 how much money is being allocated to this kind of cutting-edge science 
and how determined the country is to become a world leader.<br />
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<b>The super-collider</b><br />
When the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) built the 
Large Hadron Collider, it was by far the world’s largest and most 
powerful <a class="externalLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collider" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">particle collider</a>, as well as being <a class="externalLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects#Science_projects" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the largest, most complex experimental facility</a> ever built and the largest machine in the world.<br />
Built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from 
more than 100 countries, the collider is in a 27 kilometre tunnel 
beneath the <a class="externalLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%E2%80%93Switzerland_border" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">France–Switzerland border</a> near <a class="externalLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Geneva</a>.<br />
That all adds up to an impressive project by anyone’s standards, but China <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.nature.com/news/china-plans-super-collider-1.15603" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">now plans</a>
 to build a much bigger one. It has announced its intention to build a 
particle collider between 50 and 100km in circumference, with the first 
phase of the project's construction scheduled to begin between 2020 and 
2025.<br />
The facility is expected to generate millions of Higgs bosons, sometimes
 dubbed the “God particle”. These endow mass, making them a fundamental 
building block of the universe.<br />
The project is intended to generate seven times the energy of CERN’s 
collider, where the particle’s existence was demonstrated in 2012.<br />
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<b>The deepsea submersible</b><br />
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The Jiaolong submersible<br />
Image: Xinhua news agency<br />
In 2012, China’s deepsea exploration project reached new heights when it
 plunged to new depths; one of its research submersibles descended more 
than 7,000 metres below the surface.<br />
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By reaching the hadal zone – the deepest part of the ocean, which begins
 at 6,000 metres – China became a member of an elite group of nations 
able to reach such depths. And it plans to go further.<br />
Over the next five years, Chinese scientists <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.nature.com/news/what-china-s-latest-five-year-plan-means-for-science-1.19590" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">will build</a>
 one crewed and one un-crewed submersible, according to a plan released 
by the science ministry. Each will be able to reach depths of 11,000 
metres, the very bottom of the hadal zone. "For deepsea technology, this
 five years will be a golden period,” says Cui Weicheng of the Hadal 
Science and Technology Research Center at Shanghai Ocean University.<br />
China hopes that by becoming a world leader in ocean science it will 
attain advanced scientific capabilities in many other areas, too. By 
pushing the boundaries of exploration in space and the 
subatomic-particle level, it is already transforming itself into one of 
the most scientifically developed nations in the world.
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China’s economic power has grown at breakneck speed. Its 
ever-strengthening political might reflects that fact, as does an 
increase in its military muscle. But there are other, less obvious, 
areas in which China is rapidly becoming a world leader.<br />
Scientific research is something that the country is already doing on an
 enormous scale. And when the National People’s Congress approved its <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35818730" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">13th Five-Year Plan</a>earlier this year, <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.nature.com/news/what-china-s-latest-five-year-plan-means-for-science-1.19590" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">it was clear</a> scientific innovation was being further embedded as a national priority.<br />
China intends research expenditure <a class="externalLink" href="http://www.nature.com/news/what-china-s-latest-five-year-plan-means-for-science-1.19590" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">to rise to 2.5%</a> of gross domestic product by 2020, from less than 2.2% over the past five years.</div>
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Most significant scientific projects that put China on the map

Here are some of China’s most significant scientific projects. The super-telescope As symbols of scientific power, this takes some ...

Changzheng 7 carrier rocket successful launch use new fuel technologies

The new fuel is free of toxin or environmental pollution. In addition, it provides 60% more thrust.<br />

Changzheng 7 is of the same size as its predecessors, but its four 
boosters are 27 meters long, nearly twice as long as its predecessors’.<br />
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Moreover, it is heavier with a takeoff weight of 600 tons, in which 90% 
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Therefore, with better fuel, more powerful boosters and other new 
technologies, Changzheng 7 is able to send 13.5 tons to near-earth 
orbit, much heavier than the 8.6 tons that its predecessors are able to 
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According to Hu Leimin, an engineer at its Wenchang launch site, 
Changzheng 7 is a brand new rocket that has used lots of new 
technologies.<br />
Its control system alone uses 143 items of new artificial 
intelligence software.<br />
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The rocket is waterproof so that unlike all other rockets in service,
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Its liquid oxygen tank has a heat isolate 
layer 10 mm thick of extremely low weight to maintain its surface 
temperature above 0℃ in spite of the minus 183℃ low temperature of the 
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China wants to reach Mars by 2020, 
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<span style="font-size: small;">Since 
launching its first manned mission in 2003, China has sent up an 
experimental space station, the Tiangong 1, staged a spacewalk and 
landed its Yutu rover on the moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Its second space station, the Tiangong 2, is due to be slung into space in September this year.</span></div>
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Changzheng 7 carrier rocket successful launch use new fuel technologies

Changzheng 7 rocket. Image from nasaspaceflight.com Changzheng 7 carrier rocket successful launch on June 25. Spectators watch as a...

Long March 7 ready to test in new launching port, Hainan

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Recently,  Long-march 7 stands in Hainan Wenchang satellite launch site. Space news previously reported, new rocket 
will be put into use in 2016. The LM7 by "two and a half" configuration, 
carrying capacity will reach 13.5 tons in low earth orbit, sun 
synchronous orbit 5500 kilograms.<br />
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<td>Large carrier rocket</td>
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<td><span class="brand"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology">CALT</a></span></td>
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<th>Country of origin</th>
<td><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" class="thumbborder" data-file-height="600" data-file-width="900" height="15" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" width="23" /> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="China">People's Republic of China</a></td>
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<th>Height</th>
<td>52-57 m</td>
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<th>Diameter</th>
<td>core stage 3.35 m, booster 2.25 m</td>
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<th>Mass</th>
<td>579-582 <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Ton">tons</a></td>
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<th>Stages</th>
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<td><b>Payload to<br />
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<td>5,500 kilograms (12,100 lb)</td>
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<th>Family</th>
<td>Long March</td>
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<th>Comparable</th>
<td>Delta IV, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Atlas V">Atlas V</a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Angara (rocket family)">Angara (rocket family)</a></td>
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<th>Status</th>
<td>Development</td>
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<th>Launch sites</th>
<td>unknown</td>
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<th>First flight</th>
<td>2016</td>
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<th>No. boosters</th>
<td>4</td>
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<th>Engines</th>
<td>1 <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="YF-100">YF-100</a></td>
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<th>Thrust</th>
<td>1,200 <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Newton (unit)">kN</a></td>
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<th>Fuel</th>
<td>Kerosene/<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="LOX">LOX</a></td>
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<td>2 <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="YF-100">YF-100</a></td>
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<th>Thrust</th>
<td>2,400 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Kilonewton">kN</a></td>
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<td>Kerosene/<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="LOX">LOX</a></td>
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<th>Engines</th>
<td>1 <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="YF-100">YF-100</a></td>
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<th>Thrust</th>
<td>(1,200 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Kilonewton">kN</a>)</td>
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<td>Kerosene/<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="LOX">LOX</a></td></tr>
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Long March 7 ready to test in new launching port, Hainan

Recently, Long-march 7 stands in Hainan Wenchang satellite launch site. Space news previously reported, new rocket will be put into use...

First space station by around 2022

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(Reuters) – China expects to establish its first space station by 
around 2022, building upon the experience of an experimental module 
already in orbit, state media said on Wednesday.<br />
China’s leaders have set a priority on advancing its space program, 
with President Xi Jinping calling for the country to establish itself as
 a space power.<br />
In China’s manned space mission last year, three astronauts spent 15 
days in orbit and docked with an experimental space laboratory, the 
Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1.<br />
Yang Liwei, deputy head of China’s Manned Space Agency and also the 
country’s first man in space, said the follow-up Tiangong 2 was likely 
to be launched in about 2016.<br />
Then, in around 2018, the core of the space station would be launched
 with completion set for four years later, the official Xinhua news 
agency cited Yang as saying.<br />
China has previously said a working space station would be ready by around 2020.<br />
The country insists that its space program is for peaceful purposes.<br />
The U.S. Defense Department has highlighted China’s increasing space 
capabilities, however, saying China was pursuing activities aimed at 
preventing its adversaries from using space-based assets during a 
crisis.<br />
Despite considerable advances, China’s space program still lags those of the United States and Russia.<br />
China must still master launching cargo and fuel via space freighters
 and recycling air and water for extended manned missions, state media 
have said.<br />
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard: Editing by Nick Macfie)<br />
BEIJING, Sep 10, 2014. Reuters “China eyes first space station by around 2022”<br />
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