Purdue University engineers have developed a space-debris-clearing drag sail called Spinnaker3 that is designed to speed up the deorbiting of space junk up to 400 miles (645 km) high so it safely ...

Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away from his ...

You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat — tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight — is one of the ...

Read the following text, and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Chinese seagoing junks, with their distinctive batwing sails, were used to symbolise Hong Kong to the world from the British colony’s ...

A lucky group of youngsters spent a day experiencing life on a sailing junk at the Outward Bound school in Sai Kung. Junk Sailing Training is among the activities offered by the P&G 903 Brave Teens ...

THE Chinese junk sailing vessel is one of the oldest and best known ship designs in the world, dating back to the Han Dynasty (200 BC – 200 AD), and still in use today. No traditional view of China is ...

A Chinese junk, as small as a yacht and as brightly painted as a child's toy, is in San Francisco this week at midpoint on the historical adventure of a lifetime. The boat is named Princess Taiping, ...

Chinese space scientists have said they successfully used a huge space sail to remove debris from Earth's orbit. Announced by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology on July 6, the huge sail ...

HONG KONG, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The Dukling, a traditional Chinese junk boat frequently spotted around Hong Kong's picturesque Victoria Harbour, has readjusted its tour routes to survive the coronavirus ...

(CNN) — Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away ...