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Russia And India Sign Joint Lunar Research Deal
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 13, 2007Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) and the Indian Department of Space have signed a joint lunar research and exploration agreement, the Russian agency said on Monday. The agreement was signed by Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov and Madhavan Nair, secretary of India's Department of Space and chairman of the Space Commission. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is currently on an official ... more Zenit Launch Delayed Until November 14 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 13, 2007A Zenit rocket launch with a Thuraya-3 communications satellite, part of the Sea Launch project, has been delayed due to poor weather until November 14, Russia's mission control spokesperson said Monday. The first launch of a Zenit carrier rocket following a January explosion that damaged a launch platform had originally been scheduled for November 13. "The launch has been scheduled for 6: ... more Missile Tit-For-Tat 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 13, 2007It looks as if Russia has long guessed the American moves to create a missile defense system in Europe, and is responding tit-for-tat and even figure-for-figure. On November 6, the Americans happily rejoiced after achieving their long-cherished ambition of hitting two target drones at the same time. The Russian reaction was not slow in coming. Russia is now poised to pull out of two basic intern ... more What Will Become Of The Sea Of Azov 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 13, 2007The Kerch Strait tragedy came as another warning from Nature-it does not forgive reckless human interference. Professor Oleg Sorokhtin of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Oceanology Institute explains why a horrible storm broke out in a usually calm part of the sea: "Increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air does not affect global temperatures as much as synoptic processes whic ... more The Appeal Of Mars 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 12, 2007Despite the numerous technical and medical-biological problems it would face, a manned mission to Mars is being spoken about with more and more certainty. Yet it is unclear why we should take such great risks to land astronauts on the Red Planet. Nor do we know whether the huge costs of such an expedition would ever be recouped. Yury Semyonov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences an ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Nov 09, 2007On 25 September, students around the world watched with bated breath as their creation, the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment, reached its dramatic conclusion. A day before the Foton-M3 spacecraft returned to Earth, a small re-entry capsule, named Fotino, was to be released from the end of a 30 km tether, the longest such structure ever to be deployed in space. However, no signa ... more Korean Astronaut To Ride On Soyuz April Flight With ISS Crew 17 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 07, 2007The Russian Space Agency confirmed on Tuesday the composition of the main and back-up crews of the 17th International Space Station (ISS) expedition. The main crew, scheduled to take off on April 8, 2008 on board the Soyuz TMA-12 craft, will comprise Russian cosmonauts Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, and the first South Korean astronaut, Ko San. A contract for a ... more How The Russian Empire Crumbled 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007Anyone who has been following the stormy debate brought on by the 90th anniversary of the Great October Revolution may well wonder why its national aspects have been forgotten. Were they not intertwined with the social aspects? The events that shook the world took place in the Russian Empire, which had a very complex social-ethnic structure. And it is hard to say whether the social or the ethnic ... more An American Spy Plane And A Russian Telecom Aircraft 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007It is not surprising that military developments in one country make its opponents take similar steps. Many examples of this exist, but instances of the West's civilian industry placing orders in the Russian defense sector and helping it back to its feet are hard to remember. Yet this is what is currently taking place: Russian aircraft builders are negotiating with an unnamed Western firm about t ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007A deal to build a leg of a major Russian oil pipeline to China will not be signed during Prime Minister Wen Jibao's visit to Moscow on Tuesday, a Russian government source said on Monday. In Moscow, the final destination in Jibao's tour of former Soviet states which comprised Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Belarus, the Chinese premier with meet with his Russian counterpart, Viktor Zubkov. Ru ... more Russian New-Generation Fighter Plane Set 2012 Deadline 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 05, 2007Russia's new-generation fighter plane, currently being jointly developed with India, will make its maiden flight no later than in 2012, a senior Air Force official said on Tuesday. Russia and India signed an agreement on cooperation in the development and production of an advanced multi-purpose fighter aircraft on October 18. "The deadlines have been set - it [the fighter] must take to the skies ... more South Korean Rocket To Make First Launch In 2008 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 31, 2007The first launch of a South Korean rocket from the Naro space center, 450 km south of Seoul, built with Russia's participation is set to go ahead in 2008, the Russian Space Agency said Tuesday. "The first launch of the South Korean Launch Vehicle [KSLV] from the Naro space center is scheduled for 2008," reads a report on a recent visit to South Korea by Anatoly Perminov, Russian space agency chi ... more A Proton Rocket Lifts Off Once Again 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 31, 2007On October 26, a Proton heavy launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a Central Asian republic. Although this can hardly be described as breaking news, Moscow had every reason to be worried because Kazakhstan had suspended all Proton launches after one crashed on September 6. The unsuccessful launch of the most reliable Russian rocket came as a blow to the n ... more
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