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New Space Tourists Start Training In Russia
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 07, 2008A U.S. computer game developer and his backup an Australian entrepreneur are undergoing training near Moscow to be the next space tourist, a training center spokesman said Wednesday. Richard Garriott, 46, the son of former NASA astronaut Owen K. Garriott, and Nik Halik, 38, started training for the next trip to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for October 2008, at the Yuri Gagari ... more Progress M-63 On Way To ISS 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Feb 07, 2008In accordance with the mission plan and Russian commitments under the International Space Station (ISS) project, a cargo transportation spacecraft Progress M-63 was launched from Baikonur launch site at 16:02:57 Moscow Time. The objective of the launch is to deliver to ISS more than 2.5 tons of various cargoes that are needed to support the operation of the space station in manned mode and provi ... more Russia Launches Space Freighter To ISS 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 06, 2008Russia launched on Tuesday a Soyuz-U rocket carrying a cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a Mission Control spokesman said. The Progress M-63 space freighter will deliver 2.5 metric tons of cargo, including food, equipment and other supplies, for the ISS. Automatic docking with the orbital station has been set for 2:38pm ... more Khrunichev Center Signs New Contract For Proton-M Launches 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 01, 2008Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Center signed an international contract on Wednesday to orbit a satellite for the United Arab Emirates, a spokesman for the company said. Under the contract, the UAE's Yahsat satellite will be orbited by means of a Proton-M carrier rocket. Proton-M launch services are provided by Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services ... more Russia To Launch Space Project To Monitor The Arctic In 2010 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2008Russia's Lavochkin research and production association said on Tuesday it would start implementing a space research project to monitor the Earth's polar regions in 2010. The project, approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin, envisions using a new satellite cluster, called "Arktika," to provide environmental monitoring data for accurate weather forecasts and to aid national socio-economic dev ... more |
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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 |
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Voronezh, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 18, 2008Cockroaches conceived in space onboard the Russian Foton-M bio satellite have developed faster and become hardier than 'terrestrial' ones, a research supervisor said on Thursday. The research team has been monitoring the cockroaches since they were born in October. The scientists established that their limbs and bodies grew faster. "What is more, we have found out that the creatures ... more Russia To Launch Two Telecom Satellites On Jan 28 And Feb 10 
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
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