South Pole – Charm

Smile spacecraft (gold) fixed to a Vega-C rocket adaptor (black cone) in Kourou, French Guiana. (AFP)

European-Chinese spacecraft SMILE sent on solar wind exploration mission

Cs news3 months ago05 mins

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft blasted off into orbit Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the Sun slam into Earth’s magnetic shield. Smile spacecraft (gold) fixed to a Vega-C rocket adaptor (black cone) in Kourou, French Guiana. (AFP) Particularly fierce solar storms can knock out satellites,…

On This Day | First Hongkonger to reach North, South Poles returns home in 2006 – from the SCMP archive

8 months ago01 mins

This article was first published on January 6, 2006 By Ng Kang-chung South Pole in the bag … next stop Greenland Fresh from a history-making expedition to the South Pole, Hong Kong adventurer Chung Kin-man is already planning his next great challenge. Chung, 52, who with 54-year-old Shenzhen entrepreneur Wang Shi became the first Chinese…