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Astrium Teaming With Khrunichev To Build Large Russian Communications Satellite
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 18, 2008The Russian Satellite Communications Company has selected a team of Khrunichev Space Center and Astrium to build the Express AM4 communications satellite. Express AM4, to be delivered late 2010 and positioned at 80 East, is by far the largest Express satellite ever ordered. RSCC is focused primarily on the development of satellite communications and the broadcasting network in the ... more US-Russia deal on missile shield possible by early 2009: Gates 
Moscow (AFP) March 17, 2008US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that the US and Russia could strike a deal on parts of a missile defence shield that Washington plans to base in Europe by early 2009. Asked after meeting Russian leaders whether he was confident a deal could happen before US President George W. Bush's term ends in January next year, Gates replied: "I think the answer is yes. The environment in ... more Russia strikes upbeat note on easing tension with US 
Moscow (AFP) March 17, 2008Russia struck an upbeat note Monday on easing tensions with the United States as President Vladimir Putin discussed a key letter from US President George W. Bush with top US officials in the Kremlin. "We can put a full stop on some problems in US-Russia relations and consider them definitively resolved," Putin said at the start of talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence ... more Rocket Wreckage Removed From Siberian Shepherd Land 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 16, 2008Part of the wreckage of a carrier rocket that fell in Siberia after takeoff from Kazakhstan last month has been removed from land owned by a Russian shepherd, local officials said on Friday. Specialists from the Russian space agency Roscosmos traveled to the farm in the Altai Republic, "cut the fragment into parts and loaded it on a Mi-8 helicopter," a spokesman for the local administration said ... more Russian Proton Rocket Fails To Take Satellite Into Right Orbit 
Moscow (AFP) March 15, 2008A Russian rocket launched a communications satellite produced by US defence company Lockheed Martin into space on Saturday but failed to take it into the planned orbit, Russian space officials said. "The engine of the Briz-M booster failed to work for the whole of the scheduled time and the satellite could not be taken to the planned orbit," the Khrunichev space centre, which carried out the ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) March 14, 2008Russia is ready to hand India military aircraft engineering secrets in a bid to win a 12-billion dollar (7.65-billion euro) aviation contract tender, Interfax agency reported Friday. "If the Indian government decides to buy the MiG-35 (fighter), we will transfer to India the key technologies used in these aircraft including fifth generation technologies," manufacturers MiG said in a statement ... more Analysis: Poland, Azeris eye energy ties 
Warsaw (UPI) Mar 14, 2008Washington never tires of reminding Europe of the dangers of over-reliance on Russia as an energy source, muttering darkly that in the future the Kremlin will use its growing presence to influence European governments in a manner detrimental to their own interests. It is not an idle concern, with some analysts predicting that by 2020 Europe could be dependent on Russia for up to 70 percent of ... more Analysis: Central Asia and Gazprom 
Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2008Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have long chafed under Gazprom's pricing arrangements for their natural gas exports, as the energy giant has long adhered to the policy of buy cheap, sell dear. In a development fraught with ominous implications for Gazprom's Central European consumers, the leaders of the three nations recently indulged in some tough negotiations with Gazprom ... more Outside View: MiGs for NATO? -- Part 2 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 13, 2008 The Russian-manufactured BTSVM MVK-03 computer will provide the backbone of a weapons control system for the MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters being sold to the Slovak air force, because the Slovak air force has large stockpiles of Russian-made bombs and missiles that are difficult to combine with Western weapons control systems. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia use different ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 12, 2008 India's success in co-producing the Mach 2.8 BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with Russia raises the question as to whether New Delhi would be willing or able to sell that technology to Israel -- which urgently needs it. And it also raises the question of whether Russia would allow India to sell such technology well in advance of current U.S. cruise missile systems to a close U.S. all ... more Woman to be first S. Korean in space 
Seoul (UPI) Mar 11, 2008 A woman has been chosen to be the first South Korean in space after a male astronaut was dismissed for security violations. Ko San was replaced by Russian space authorities for taking sensitive training materials outside the Russian space center, The Korea Times reported Monday. Ko was replaced by Yi So-yeon, a 29-year-old mechanical engineer. She will fly on a Russian Soyuz space ... more Russian Presidential Pooch To Get Satellite Tracking Device 
Antarctic (RIA Novosti) Mar 12, 2008A Russian first deputy premier, in Antarctica on Tuesday to test the Glonass satellite system, has said that President Vladimir Putin's dog will get the satellite navigation collar it was earlier promised. 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 ... more Russian FM calls for talks with Iran on nuclear issue 
Paris (AFP) March 11, 2008Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday urged the international community to do "everything possible" to engage Iran in negotiations over its contested nuclear programme. "We must seek an innovative approach. This means first and foremost doing everything possible -- and even impossible -- to begin discussions with Iran," said Lavrov in Paris. The Russian foreign minister was ... more
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