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First Deputy PM Ivanov Slams Agency Over Glonass Failings
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 24, 2008Russian space agency Roscosmos must take responsibility for the operational shortcomings of the Glonass satellite navigation system, a first deputy prime minister said on Wednesday. Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System), Russia's equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), is designed for both military and civilian use and allows users to identify their positions in real time. ... more Ivanov Says Russia Must Not Turn Into Space Cabman 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 24, 2008Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Wednesday that if space launches remain Russia's only services in the sector, the country risks becoming a "space cabman." Speaking at a board session of the state space agency Roscosmos, Ivanov said: "Roscosmos today earns most of its money by putting foreign satellites into orbit. And our state organizations and businesses buy data prov ... more Russian Earth-Orbiting Satellites To Use US Microchips 
Krasnoyarsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 23, 2008Russia's major producer of Earth-orbiting satellites said on Tuesday it intends to use microprocessors produced by the U.S.-based firm Aeroflex on its relay satellites. On January 22, representatives of Aeroflex's Colorado division, Aeroflex Colorado Springs, arrived in the town of Zheleznogorsk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in East Siberia, where the Academician Reshetnev Research and Production ... more Russia To Raise Space Funding, Build New Space Center 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2008Russia will increase funding for space projects by 13% and start the construction of a new space center this year, a first deputy prime minister said on Monday. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting with the president, Sergei Ivanov said the funding increase does not include military programs. "With the increase in the funds, concrete development programs in the sector should be considered in terms of t ... more High-Flying Asteroid Scouts 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 21, 2008It looks as though the international space-monitoring community is in for fresh reinforcements, although not a new James Bond. On the agenda are plans to set up a ground- and space-based deep space search network, first on a regional and later on a global basis. Meanwhile, the new year for Russia's Center for Planetary Protection Against Asteroids began with a statement by its director Ana ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 18, 2008Russia is to launch two communication satellites in the coming weeks from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a leading Russian space company said on Thursday. The Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said the Proton-M rocket, carrying an Express-AM33 satellite, was on schedule for take-off on January 28. The Express-AM33 was designed by the Reshetnev Applied Mechanics Scie ... more Russian Spacecraft To Lift Off To ISS Two Days Early 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 15, 2008The launch of Russia's Progress M-63 to the International Space Station has been rescheduled from February 7 to 5, Russian Mission Control said on Monday. "The launch of the cargo spacecraft would have coincided with the launch of the U.S. space shuttle [Atlantis], which is why NASA asked us to launch Progress two days before schedule, because the docking of two spacecraft, albeit to diffe ... more Russian Fuel Flows Into Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle 
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jan 15, 2008Fuelling of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle has started at Europe's Spaceport. ATV is being loaded with Russian refuelling propellant destined for the International Space Station. After a month of fuelling operations, the launch and maiden voyage of the first European resupply spaceship is scheduled for the second half of February. Early this month, the 20-tonne Jules Verne Auto ... more Russia's First Space Launch Of 2008 Scheduled For January 28 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 14, 2008The first Proton-M launch of 2008, carrying an Express-AM33 satellite, is scheduled for January 28 at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a leading Russian space company said on Thursday. The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center said in a press statement that the carrier rocket, with a Briz-M booster, was on schedule for take-off. The Express-AM33 was designed b ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 03, 2008Putin and members of Russia's Security Council were given a demonstration of a Glonass device for cars at a meeting on foreign and domestic policy on Saturday, the presidential press secretary said. Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System) is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), which is designed for both military and civilian use, and allows users to identify ... more ATK Extendible Support Structure Operates Successfully on the RADARSAT-2 Mission 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jan 02, 2008Alliant Techsystems reports that its extendible support structure (ESS) operated as designed on the RADARSAT-2 mission that was launched Saturday, Dec. 14th on a Soyuz vehicle from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Once on orbit ATK's ESS built in its Goleta, Cal. facility deployed flawlessly. The ESS's precision deployment and in-orbit stiffness and stability enable functionalit ... more Roscosmos Reports Russia Had 101 Operating Satellites In 2007 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 02, 2008The number of Russian-made satellites in orbit this year has increased to 101, the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency said Thursday. "In 2007 the Russian space group consists of 101 satellites, 35 of them have socio-economic roles," Anatoly Perminov, the head of Roscosmos, told journalists. Until 2007, Russia had just over 90 operating satellites. Perminov denied Thursday ... more Progress M-62 docks Space Station 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Dec 31, 2007Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-62, after three days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Proximity operations, final approach maneuvers and docking were performed in automatic mode. Initial contact with the docking port of the Pirs docking module-compartment occurred at 11:15 Moscow Time within coverage of Russian ground tracking stations. ... more
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