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Space Station Expedition 16 Crew Approved
Star City, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 21, 2007A Russian space flight commission has approved the members of the main and reserve crews for the 16th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Thursday. The main crew members, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, are scheduled for take-off October 10 aboard Soyuz TMA-11, together with Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, the fi ... more Energia's General Designer's Review Board Meets 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Sep 20, 2007At OAO S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia under the chairmanship of V.A. Lopota, Corporation President, General Designer, took place a session of the General Designer's Review Board. Consideration was given to the status of International Space Station Russian Segment and its flight program implementation, progress of Soyuz TMA-11 transport manned vehicle launch processing and final ... more Russian Space Launch Vehicle Firing Tests Set For 2008 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 20, 2007The Angara space launch vehicle first stage firing tests will take place in 2008, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center web site said Wednesday. Colonel General Vladimir Popovkin, commander of Russia's Space Forces, said earlier the Angara flight tests were scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2010. He also said the booster would be launched in the first quarter of 2011. The g ... more SSC Communication System Flys On Russian Capsule Foton 
Esrange, Sweden (SPX) Sep 20, 2007The SSC-developed communication system Telescience Support Unit (TSU) has been launched into space. The system is being used by the European Space Agency (ESA) onboard the Russian space capsule Foton M3. This is SSC's fourth delivery of a TSU for Foton, and this time, SSC's engineers have developed a new generation of the system. The TSU will store and process data from ten experiments onboard t ... more The Promised Moon 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 19, 2007On September 17, international reports confirmed the seriousness of Beijing's intention to put its own spacecraft in a lunar orbit before the end of this year. While for the leading space players - Russia and the United States - planned expeditions are quite natural if not always justified, China's lunar ambition, and indeed the country's entire space effort, fills one with wonder at such an ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Sep 13, 2007Samples of micro organisms, antibodies, fluorescent dyes and rock from Devon are amongst a European payload which will be sent into near-Earth orbit this week onboard an unmanned Russian spacecraft -- exposing them to the extreme conditions found in space. The Foton-M3 capsule will be launched by a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday 14th September at 12 noon BST ... more NASA Collaborates With Russia On Foton-M3 Mission 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2007NASA is collaborating with Russia on a new robotic mission to conduct biological studies. The Russian Foton-M3 mission is scheduled for launch Sept. 14, 2007, from Kazakhstan, and NASA scientists will participate in several of the mission's experiments. NASA scientists hope the data obtained from the Foton-M3 mission will improve research techniques. The experiments will increase ... more Russia To Get A New Space Port 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2007On the last day of summer, the Russian Space Agency made a sensational announcement. Its head Anatoly Perminov painted an epic picture of Russia's immediate future in space, specifically its manned part. A week and a half ago, during a final news conference with journalists at the MAKS-2007 international air show, to the surprise of many, he spoke modestly about the evolutionary path to be ... more STS-120 To Deliver Harmony Node To ISS 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2007A series of recent shuttle missions have added to the International Space Station's exterior with new elements for its main truss. Now, Discovery will take into orbit a connecting module that will increase the orbiting laboratory's interior space. October's STS-120 mission will bring the Harmony module, christened after a school contest, that will provide attachment points for European and ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 06, 2007Russia is to put forward a draft resolution to the United Nations banning the deployment of weapons in outer space, a Russian UN mission official statement said Thursday. The resolution entitled, Transparency and Confidence Building Measures in Outer Space Activities, was submitted to the UN five years ago and proposed a ban on the deployment of all types of weapons in space. Russia said ... more Russian Satellites: Smaller, Lighter, Cheaper 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 07, 2007Mini-satellites are all the rage these days. None of the Russian space firms attending the MAKS-2007 air show failed to exhibit one. Modern technologies enable spacecraft weighing a few hundred kilograms to perform tasks once the preserve of satellites of several tons. Satellites are getting ever lighter and smaller: there are already micro-satellites with a weight of between 10 and 100 kg, and ... more Russian Proton-M Rocket With Japanese Satellite Crashes On Launch 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 07, 2007A Russian Proton-M booster rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite exploded shortly after lift-off early Thursday, a space agency spokesman said. The rocket, which was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 2:43 a.m. Moscow time (10:43 p.m. GMT Wednesday), experienced an engine malfunction and second-stage separation failure 139 seconds into its flight, and came ... more South Korea Chooses First Astronaut For Space Trip 
Seoul (XNA) Sep 06, 2007A 30-year-old computer vision engineer has been chosen as South Korea's first astronaut to make a trip to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft early next year, the local news agency Yonhap reported Wednesday. Ko san, a researcher at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, will go into space on the Soyuz spacecraft in April 2008 and spend seven to eight days on the space ... more
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