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The most daring space missions coming in 2025 – from China’s asteroid retrieval to first private ‘luxury’ space station

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The most daring space missions coming in 2025 - from China's asteroid retrieval to first private 'luxury' space station

THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China’s asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space missions ahead. 7 China is set to launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016… The most daring space missions coming in 2025 … Read more

Mysterious half tonne metal ring crash lands on Earth as experts sound the alarm over growing ‘space junk’

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Mysterious half tonne metal ring crash lands on Earth as experts sound the alarm over growing 'space junk'

A LARGE glowing ring of metal plummeted on a village in Kenya on Monday, in a shocking reminder of Earth’s looming space debris problem. Villagers discovered the “red and hot” object, which is suspected to be a rocket separation ring, on 30 December. 3 A huge space ring that weighs half a tonne… Mysterious half … Read more