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Factbox-Horizon project: Which EU science schemes has Britain joined?
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Thursday said it would join the European Union's flagship Horizon science research programme and its Copernicus earth observation programme, but not the Euratom nuclear r...
Sep 07, 2023
Britain rejoins EU’s Horizon science programme with “bespoke” agreement
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain announced on Thursday it would rejoin the European Union's flagship Horizon science research programme in a "bespoke" new agreement that ends a dispute which saw it locked o...
Sep 07, 2023
Japan launches rocket carrying moon lander SLIM after three delays
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan launched the H-IIA rocket carrying the national space agency's moon lander on Thursday morning, after unfavourable weather led to three postponements in a week...
Sep 06, 2023
‘Bizarre’ long-legged bird-like dinosaur has scientists enthralled
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a p...
Sep 06, 2023
Japan’s ‘moon sniper’ to test precision landing – and Tokyo’s space ambitions
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to become the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the lunar surface with the launch of a low-cost "moon sniper" on Thursday that will test precision landing technology d...
Sep 06, 2023
Europe space agency to set target period for Ariane 6 launch in October
PARIS (Reuters) - The European Space Agency said it plans to set a target period for the first launch of the delayed Ariane 6 after completing a series of engine tests in early October. In an online n...
Sep 04, 2023
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy reschedules moon rocket launch for Thursday
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said on Monday it planned to launch its H-IIA rocket carrying a moon lander on Thursday morning, after unfavourable wind conditions led to a postp...
Sep 04, 2023
Mission accomplished, India puts moon rover to ‘sleep’
By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India switched off its moon rover, the first craft to reach the lunar south poll, after it completed its two-week assignment conducting experiments, the count...
Sep 03, 2023
After the moon, India sets sights on studying the sun with rocket mission
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) - Following up on the success of India's moon landing with the Chandrayaan-3, the country's space agency was set to launch a rocket on Saturday to study t...
Sep 01, 2023
Crashed Russian mission left a crater on the moon, NASA images show
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's failed Luna-25 mission left a 10-metre wide crater on the moon when it crashed last month after a problem preparing for a soft landing on the south pole, according to image...
Sep 01, 2023
