China's Mars rover soldiers on after completing programChina's National Space Administration said on its website Friday that Zhurong completed its 90-day program on Aug. 15 and was in excellent ...
21 Aug, 2021, 03.38 PM IST
President Xi speaks to Chinese astronauts in space station; says mission an important 'milestone'China successfully launched its longest crewed space mission to date on June 17, sending three astronauts to its new orbiting station, in a...
23 Jun, 2021, 05.27 PM IST
First astronauts arrive at China's space stationThe trio blasted off on a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan launch centre in northwest China's Gobi desert, and their craft docked at t...
17 Jun, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
China's Zhurong rover explores Mars, sends pictures of dusty, rocky red planetThe six-wheeled rover is surveying an area known as Utopia Planitia, searching for signs of water or ice.
12 Jun, 2021, 01.53 PM IST
Rocket in place to send 3 crew to Chinese space stationThe space agency plans a total of 11 launches through the end of next year to deliver two laboratory modules to expand the 70-ton station, ...
10 Jun, 2021, 11.23 AM IST
Official: Chinese astronauts go to space station next monthThe Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, is the third and largest space station launched by China's increasingly ambitious space programme. Its cor...
30 May, 2021, 07.07 PM IST
China successfully launches cargo spacecraft to dock with space station moduleThe Long March-7 Y3 rocket, carrying Tianzhou-2, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island p...
29 May, 2021, 11.17 PM IST
Special Air India flight with stranded Indians from virus-hit Wuhan to leave for home on SaturdayIndia announced plans to operate two flights from Wuhan to airlift around 400 students stranded in Hubei province, the epicentre of the vir...
31 Jan, 2020, 08.56 PM IST
China starts developing new-era exascale supercomputerThe aim is to make the computer, which will be capable of a quintillion calculations per second, by 2020, state-run Xinhua news agency repo...
27 Jul, 2016, 01.52 PM IST
New Chinese system named world's top supercomputerThe computer system called Sunway TaihuLight can make 93 quadrillions calculations per second.
20 Jun, 2016, 05.20 PM IST
China planning new supercompute more powerful than its Tianhe-1AThe National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin will release a prototype in 2017 or 2018 of an "exascale" computer.
22 Jan, 2016, 08.33 PM IST
China's super computer Tianhe-1 re-started after Tianjin blastsTianhe-1 supercomputer, located at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, is one the fastest computers and one of the few petascale...
17 Aug, 2015, 03.56 PM IST
China's supercomputer shutdown after twin blasts in TianjinChina today shut down one of the world's fastest supercomputer after a building housing it was damaged in the massive twin explosions.
13 Aug, 2015, 04.40 PM IST
China gains top spot by building fastest super computer: Xi-JinpingChina's success in developing the world's fastest super computer has helped the country gain a top spot in the hi-tech field, Xi-Jinping sa...
18 Jun, 2013, 06.58 PM IST
- What's so super about supercomputers?
Just what is the big deal about a supercomputer? Is it only about bragging rights or is there more to it? ET unravels the world of supercom...
10 May, 2011, 06.31 AM IST
- Chinese supercomputer named world's fastest
China overtook the United States at the head of the world of supercomputing on Sunday when a survey ranked one of its machines the fastest ...
15 Nov, 2010, 03.57 AM IST
- China's new computer does 1,000 trillion jobs per second
China has installed the country's first domestically-made supercomputer capable of doing 1,000 trillion operations per second.
02 Sep, 2010, 03.22 PM IST