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Armavir Radar To Be On Combat Duty Late In 2007
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 04, 2007A state-of-the-art radar being built near Armavir, in southern Russia, will be on combat duty in late 2007, Colonel-General Vladimir Popovkin, the commander of the Russian Space Forces said Wednesday. In an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda - Red Star, a Russian military newspaper - Popovkin said the radar located near the town of Armavir, in the Krasnodar Territory would start combat duty in late ... more Lomonosov Ridge Could Bring Russia 5 Billion Tons Of Extra Fuel 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 04, 2007Russia's natural resources minister said Monday the development of the Lomonosov underwater mountain chain in the Arctic could bring Russia up to 5 billion metric tons of equivalent fuel. "Reaching the Lomonosov ridge means for Russia potentially up to 5 billion tons of equivalent fuel," Yury Trutnev said during an online Internet conference. The Natural Resources Ministry said in Septembe ... more Starsem To Loft Four New Globalstars October 25 Aboard Soyuz Carrier Rocket 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 03, 2007Russia is preparing to launch four U.S. Globalstar satellites into orbit on board a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on October 25, the space agency said Thursday. Globalstar is a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite-based telecommunications system founded by U.S.-based Loral Corporation and Qualcomm Inc. It provides high-quality satellite voice and data serv ... more Asteroid Flyby In 2029 Still A Concern Warns Russian Astronomer 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 03, 2007An asteroid, discovered in 2004, could pose a threat to Earth in 2029, the director of the Institute of Astronomy said Monday. Boris Shustov said at an international space forum in Moscow that the Apophis asteroid, which is due to cross earth's orbit in 2029 at a height of 27,000 km (17,000 miles), could under certain conditions hit Earth in 2029. The explosion could surpass the famous Tun ... more Successful Test Of Jules Verne ATV Software 
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 02, 2007For the first time, the compatibility of the final Jules Verne Automatic Transfer Vehicle flight software has been successfully tested this month with the rest of the vast ISS flight software by international teams at the NASA Software Verification Facility (SVF) in Houston. This ISS-level stage test, the so-called 'five-box' test, is a new step where the ATV software is integrated into th ... more |
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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 |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2007The recent crash of a Russian Proton-M rocket will not affect the launch of a Foton bio-satellite piggybacked on a Soyuz rocket, since the two rockets are entirely different, a spokesman for the Federal Space Agency said Tuesday. A Proton-M rocket with a Japanese communications satellite on board crashed September 6 shortly after launch from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. ... more Getting A Taste Of Space 
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
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