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Durian in space: Thailand to send smelly fruit into orbit

 Imagine being trapped in a spaceship with the world's smelliest fruit. Thailand's space research agency has just announced plans to send durian to space by July, as part of a project to produce Thai food suitable for future space travel.

Space junk demo mission launches

 A UK-led experiment to tackle space junk has been sent into orbit. It takes the form of a small satellite that will practise techniques for tracking debris and capturing it.

NASA's Juno spacecraft loops into orbit around Jupiter

 NASA'S Juno spacecraft capped a five-year journey to Jupiter on Monday with a do-or-die engine burn that looped it into orbit to probe the origins of the biggest planet in the solar system and how it impacted the rise of life on Earth,

Vietnam will have second remote sensing satellite

VNREDSat-1B is the next remote sensing satellite that Vietnam intends to launch into space with the cooperation of Belgium, after the successful launch of the first earth observation satellite.

Vietnam’s first remote sensing satellite to be launched in May

VietNamNet Bridge - VNREDSat-1 - the first earth observation satellite of Vietnam will be launched into space from a French launch pad early next month.