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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 09, 2007On October 11, the Russian government will consider a state defense order for the next three years. The program covering the period until 2015 is expected to replace 45% of the military inventory in the army and navy. In addition to re-equipping tank, motorized rifle and air landing units, it also plans to build up strategic weapons. The troops will take delivery of over 50 mobile Topol-M missil ... more Russian Parliament Postpones Consideration Of CFE Moratorium 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 09, 2007The lower house of Russia's parliament postponed until November hearings on a bill submitted by President Vladimir Putin on imposing a moratorium on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty. Lawmakers were set to consider the future of the 30-member treaty, which limits Russian and NATO conventional forces and heavy weaponry from the Atlantic to the Urals, on October 9. "The hearings have ... more Russia To Carry Out Up To 20 Space Projects By 2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 05, 2007Under the Federal space program for 2006-2015 Russia plans to conduct over 20 scientific projects, Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) head Anatoly Perminov told Thursday "In particular, we have plans to build special-purpose spacecraft fitted with scientific equipment. The research will focus on fields like astrophysics, and planetary science," he said. He said that planned flights includ ... more Russian Silkworms Spin First Space Silk In History 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 04, 2007Silkworms on board the recent Russian Foton-M bio-satellite flight span the first space silk in history, a Moscow school teacher revealed Tuesday. As part of the satellite's scientific program, Moscow school students, led by biology teacher Alexander Koloskov, carried out an experiment to study how weightlessness influences the life cycle of silkworms. Experiments on board the satellite also rev ... more 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 |
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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 Expedition 16 Crew To Launch From Baikonur 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Oct 02, 2007Commander Peggy Whitson and Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the 16th International Space Station crew are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at about 10:21 a.m. EDT on Oct. 10 to begin a six-month stay in space. With them will be spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor. He is a Malaysian flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency. He will ... more India And Russia Discuss Space Cooperation 
Hyderabad India (PTI) Sep 28, 2007India and Russia held discussions here on possibility of cooperation in space exploration, including missions to the moon and Mars. General Anatoly Perminov, Head of the Federal Space Agency, Russia met Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair on the sidelines of the 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) here. "Discussions are on for possible cooperation with ... more Foton-M3 Experiments Return To Earth 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 27, 2007The reentry capsule for the Foton-M3 spacecraft, which has been in low-Earth orbit for the last 12 days, successfully landed this morning in an uninhabited area 150 km south of the town of Kustanay in Kazakhstan, close to the Russian border, at 09:58 CEST, 13:58 local time. The unmanned Foton spacecraft, which was launched on 14 September from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, carried a ... more |
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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 Progress M-60 To Serve Science Before Burning Up In Atmosphere 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 18, 2007The Russian Progress M-60 cargo spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and spend several days engaged in research, a mission control official said Monday. The freighter will spend five days in independent flight before leaving orbit and starting a fiery decent through the Earth's atmosphere. "The Progress M-60 spacecraft will be undocked from the ... more Lift-Off For Foton Microgravity Mission 
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 17, 2007ESA PR 28-2007. An unmanned Foton spacecraft, carrying a payload of more than 40 ESA experiments, was successfully launched earlier today. The Soyuz-U launcher lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 13:00 CEST (11:00 GMT). Nearly 9 minutes later, the Russian Foton-M3 spacecraft separated from the rocket's upper stage and was inserted into a 300 km orbit that will carry it around ... more
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