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Russia Tests Engine For Angara Carrier Rocket
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 10, 2007Russia has successfully conducted preliminary tests of an engine for the first stage of the new-generation Angara carrier rocket, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said on Friday. The RD-191 oxygen-kerosene engine has been developed by Energomash research and production center for a new family of Russian launch vehicles based on a common core booster. "Experts have tested ... more Russian Carrier Rocket Proton Puts Military Satellite Into Orbit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 10, 2007A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket, launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, has put a military satellite into orbit, Russia's space agency (Roskosmos) said on Sunday. "A Proton-M carrier rocket, which was launched from the Baikonur space center at 03: 16 a.m. Moscow time (00:16 a.m. GMT) today [on Sunday], successfully put a Kosmos satellite into orbit at 12:17 p.m. Moscow time (09 ... more Russia To Launch Thai Satellite Into Orbit Next Year 
Orenburg (RIA Novosti) Dec 06, 2007Kosmotras, a Russian-Ukrainian joint venture, will launch Thailand's first Earth observation satellite into orbit at the beginning of 2008, a company official said on Wednesday. The THEOS satellite has been designed and manufactured by French company EADS Astrium under a 2004 contract with the Thai Ministry of Science and Technology. The spacecraft will be launched on board a Dnepr carrier rocke ... more China To Launch Mars Probe In 2009 
Beijing (PTI) Dec 05, 2007China, which sent its first lunar orbiter to probe the moon's surface recently, will launch its maiden Mars probe onboard a Russian rocket in October 2009, state media reported. Yinghuo-1 would reach the pre-set circling orbit and beam the first images of the red planet in September 2010, the state-run China Daily said, quoting a senior scientist. The prototype of the probe was now being ... more The Venusian Climate And Its Evolution 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 04, 2007Today, Venus is a hellish place of high temperatures and crushing air pressure. Venus Express is showing that this was not always the case. Instead, some time in the past, Venus was probably much more Earth-like and contained large quantities of water. Planetary scientists have long wondered just how Earth-like Venus is or might have been. Until the 1960s, astronomers speculated that Venus might ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2007Following the death of Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov last December, U.S. energy companies eagerly braced themselves for a possible opening up of the country's vast natural gas resources under a new administration. Alas, in a world of record-high energy prices, Wall Street bulls seem once again to have been outmaneuvered by the wily Kremlin. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamed ... more Russia Conducts First Experiment In Preparation For Mars-500 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 30, 2007Russian scientists have completed the first stage of preparations for an experimental Mars mission simulation, Mars-500, a medical research institute announced on Thursday. The purpose of the main experiment, expected to begin in late 2008, is to simulate a space flight to Mars taking into account all ramifications, including a 250-day "trip" to the Red Planet, a 30-day period on its surface, an ... more Mechanical Engineer Aims To Improve Detection Of Nuclear Smuggling Activity 
Austin TX (SPX) Nov 29, 2007A professor at The University of Texas at Austin has received $1.9 million to expand a computer model that is already helping guide national decisions about placement of devices to detect nuclear smuggling attempts. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security provided the funds to improve the design of networks of sensors to detect smuggling in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union ... more Second Belarusian Satellite To Blast Off Late 2009 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 27, 2007Belarus's second satellite will be launched from Russia's Plesetsk space center in late 2009, the head of Belarusian company Geoinformational Systems said on Thursday. Belarus launched its first satellite, Belka, in July 2006. However, a Dnepr rocket carrying the Belarusian satellite, along with several international satellites, crashed shortly after lift off from the Baikonur space center in Ka ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007At the 20th World Energy Congress in Rome on November 11-15, Russian representatives confirmed that they have chosen Europe as a priority market of energy supplies for many years ahead. Gazprom, for instance, intends to increase its share in the European gas market from the current 26% to 33% by 2015. It seems that Russia is not particularly worried about the EU initiative to protect its domesti ... more Russia, EU Still Divided On Trans-Siberian Overflight Charges 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007The Russia-EU aviation summit, slated for November 16-17 in Moscow, has been "postponed for an indefinite time" because of Moscow's reluctance to sign an agreement on trans-Siberian overflights. On November 8, the Russian Transport Ministry said the summit had been called off indefinitely. According to both Russian and European media, the European Commission, which had co-organized the summit, w ... more First Soyuz Launch From Kourou Set For 2009 
Paris (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007The first launch of a Soyuz carrier rocket from a space center near Kourou in French Guiana will be conducted in 2009, Russia's space chief said on Friday. "The first Soyuz [carrier rocket] will lift off from Kourou in 2009," said Anatoly Perminov, head of Russia's Federal Space Agency, who is currently attending a meeting of the Russian-French commission on cooperation in space research. ... more Military Chief Says Russia Not Obliged To Protect World From US 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007Yury Baluyevsky, the chief of Russia's general staff, said in an interview with the Russia Today TV channel on Tuesday that the Russian Armed Forces were under no obligation to protect the world from the U.S. Answering a question as to whether or not the world could count on Russia to defend it from "insidious American plans," Baluyevsky replied, "Today, there is no need to be afraid of the Russ ... more
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