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The Many Planned Moon Landings of 2025 (and Beyond)

February 24, 2025
Aerospace & Aeronautical

If the moon were a living, thinking being, it would have learned long ago to be very patient with visitors from Earth. In the 1960s there was a stream of spacecraft—and then they stopped, almost entirely, for 50 years. Now there is a new wave of missions—some crashing into the…

February 18, 2025
Aerospace & Aeronautical

China has managed to deliver a pair of satellites into lunar orbit despite the spacecraft initially being stranded in low Earth orbit following a rocket failure, using a mix of complex calculations, precise engine burns, and astrodynamic ingenuity.China launched the DRO-A and B satellites on 13 March last year on…

December 30, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt reactor in the Gobi Desert. The 10-megawatt reactor project, managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of…

December 20, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Backpackers are all too familiar with the uncomfortable burden of a heavy bag, but scientists are exploring ways to lighten the load. In a recent study, group in China unveiled a backpack prototype that nearly…

October 23, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Duncan Turner is the managing director at Hax, a startup accelerator that specializes in “hard tech”—innovations in physical science and engineering. Hax offers up to US $500,000 in funding alongside resources that include chemical, mechanical, and electronics labs, and access to a global team of engineers and scientists. Turner’s group…

August 27, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

China launched its first batch of satellites for its Qianfan megaconstellation earlier this month. It now has 18 satellites in orbit, but much more will be needed to build out this network of nearly 14,000 satellites.Qianfan—”thousands sails” in Chinese and also referred to as Spacesail or G60—is a project run…

25 Jun 24

Rocket debris falls on village following France-China satellite launch

Computer & Information Technology

France and China blasted a new satellite into space on Saturday, in an increasingly rare example of cooperation between a Western power and the world’s second largest economy. The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) launched atop a Long March 2C rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwestern China. The…

May 29, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Today, typing in Chinese works by converting QWERTY keystrokes into Chinese characters via a software interface, known as an input method editor. But this was not always the case. Thomas S. Mullaney’s new book, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, published by the MIT Press, unearths…

15 Apr 24

German EV Motor Could Break Supply-Chain Deadlock

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Among the countless challenges of decarbonizing transportation, one of the most compelling involves electric motors. In laboratories all over the world, researchers are now chasing a breakthrough that could kick into high gear the transition to electric transportation: a rugged, compact, powerful electric motor that has high power density and…

20 Mar 24

The 5 Spacecraft Behind China’s Moon Rock Sample Mission

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

China launched a spacecraft today that is planned to be the first act in a complex, multi-step campaign to achieve an unprecedented feat: Collecting samples from the far side of the moon and delivering the precious cargo to Earth.Queqiao-2 (“Magpie Bridge-2”), a communications relay satellite, launched at 8:31 a.m. local…

The Many Planned Moon Landings of 2025 (and Beyond)

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This Backpack Lightens Its Own Load

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Rocket debris falls on village following France-China satellite launch

The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards

German EV Motor Could Break Supply-Chain Deadlock

The 5 Spacecraft Behind China’s Moon Rock Sample Mission

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