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Doctors Give Green Light For Flight Of Next Space Tourist
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 12, 2008Russian doctors gave two would-be space tourists, Richard Garriott and Nik Halik, a clean bill of health paving the way for specialist training and a flight to the space station, a spokesman said Monday. "Richard Garriott and his backup Nik Halik (pictured) have been allowed to undergo special physical training at Star City. No contraindications were detected in the candidates against training and ... more Moscow To Present Sino-Russian Space Arms Race Control Initiative 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 12, 2008Russia will submit to a UN disarmament conference a joint Sino-Russian proposal for an international treaty to ban the deployment of weapons in outer space. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will present the draft treaty to the UN-sponsored annual Geneva Disarmament Conference on February 12. The United States has been critical of the Russian-Chinese initiative, especially following ... more Gazcom To Orbit Two New Yamal-300 Satellites 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 11, 2008Gazcom will orbit two new Yamal-300 satellites in the first half of 2009, the telecommunications arm of Russia's energy giant Gazprom said Wednesday. In line with its commitments under a contract with satellite supplier Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, as of the end of 2007, Gascom has paid around 50% of the project fees. Gazcom currently has three Yamal telecommunication satellites ... more Russia To Launch Four More Progress Cargo Trucks To Space Station By Year End 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 11, 2008Another four Progress cargo ships will be launched to the International Space Station in 2008, the head of the ISS Russian segment said Thursday. "The station's permanent crew will soon consist of six rather than three people, and they will need more food," Vladimir Solovyov said. "Besides, with the arrival of the U.S. shuttle Atlantis, the station will receive the new European module ... more Progress M-63 Docks With ISS 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 08, 2008Russia's Progress M-63 cargo ship has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) as planned, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Thursday. Progress M-63 delivered 2.5 metric tons of cargo, including food, equipment and other supplies, for the ISS. The crew on board the ISS, the 16th expedition to the space station, comprises U.S. astronauts Peggy Whitson and Daniel Tani, as well as Russi ... more |
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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 Russia May Build New Shuttle Spacecraft By 2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2008Russia's rocket and space corporation Energia may build a new-generation piloted spacecraft by 2015, the company president said on Tuesday. Energia has been developing a reusable manned spacecraft since 2000. It is designed to replace the Soyuz and Progress launch vehicles in making regular flights to the International Space Station and even the Moon and Mars. "Countries, such as the US ... more Russia Puts New Telecoms Satellite Into Orbit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 29, 2008Russia successfully put into orbit on Monday a new Express-AM33 telecommunications satellite, the Federal Space Agency said. The satellite, designed by the Reshetnev Applied Mechanics Science and Production Association to provide TV and satellite communications all over Russia, was launched on board a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan earlier on Monday. ... more |
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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 Indian T-90 Deal Offers Lessons For America And Europe 
Washington (UPI) Jan 18, 2007 India's decision to purchase 347 T-90 Main Battle Tanks from Russia flies in the face of the strategic assumptions confidently -- and complacently -- held by both the European Union and the United States. The EU, lulled by the six decades of peace, security and unprecedented prosperity the continent has enjoyed since the end of World War II, despises the concept of "hard" or military po ... more
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