Two high-resolution remote-sensing satellites were successfully launched Wednesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi Province, Chinese Xinhua news agency reported. The satellites, SuperView-1 01/02, blasted off at 11:23am Beijing time on the back of a Long March 2D rocket. The satellites, able to provide commercial images ...
A strong earthquake struck northeast of Tokyo late Wednesday but there was no fear of a tsunami, Japan’s meteorological agency said. It put the magnitude at 6.3, while the US Geological Survey measured it at 5.9. The quake struck at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), 18 km ...
