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Outside View: Problems with GLONASS 
Moscow, April 9, 2008 The council of chief designers responsible for commissioning Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System has said it will only become operational in late 2008, whereas the previous deadline was Dec. 31, 2007. Something is obviously amiss in this ambitious project, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Navstar Global Positioning System. According to the Russian Space Agency ... more First Korean astronaut edges towards space station 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 9, 2008South Korea's first astronaut closed in on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and was "preparing for docking," an official for Russia's Federal Space Centre said. "They are gradually getting closer to the International Space Station. They will be docking tomorrow," said Oleg Urusov, spokesman for the space centre at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Yi So-Yeon and tw ... more China Goes Berserk In Russian Arms Bazaar Up Part Two 
Stockholm, Sweden (UPI) Apr 09, 2008 The lack of significant new arms orders for Russia from China could be caused by its efforts to further develop its own arms industry, dissatisfaction with delays on outstanding orders, or disappointment with the quality of Russian weapons delivered in recent years. Despite this, China is still rumored to be interested in the Russian offer of Su-33 and Su-35 combat aircraft for use on ... more First Korean astronaut blasts off 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2008The first South Korean astronaut blasted off on Tuesday aboard a Russian rocket bound for the International Space Station, in a historic first for her Asian homeland. Yi So-Yeon and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko roared into the sky on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome, watched by relatives and well-wishers. ... more Thousands celebrate first Korean astronaut 
Seoul (AFP) April 8, 2008Thousands of South Koreans led by President Lee Myung-Bak gathered here Tuesday to celebrate the launch of the country's first astronaut from a space center in Kazakhstan. A festive crowd of 3,000 citizens and invited guests watched on a giant outdoor TV screen as Yi So-Yeon blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, bound for the International Space Station. "Hurray!" shouted the crowd a ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 8, 2008A Russian mayor has taken the unusual step of calling for his own town to be shut down due to toxic weapons waste, a daily newspaper reported on Tuesday. Nikolai Malakhov, mayor of the southwestern town of Chapayevsk, formerly home to Soviet arms factories that produced toxic agents, had told a meeting with visiting officials that closing the town and resettling its residents would be the "i ... more Progress M-63 Successfully Buried In South Pacific 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 08, 2008Russia's Progress M-63 space cargo ship was successfully 'buried' on Monday at a spaceship cemetery in the southern Pacific, a Mission Control spokesman said. "Having partly burned up in the Earth's dense atmosphere, Progress ended its existence in the designated area in the southern Pacific," the spokesman said. In February, Progress M-63 delivered 2.5 metric tons of cargo, including food ... more Russia's Satellite Navigation Market May Be Worth 6 billion Dollars By 2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 08, 2008Russia's satellite navigation services market will be worth 160 billion rubles ($6.6 billion) by 2015, the general director of the Russian Institute of Radio Navigation said on Monday. Sergei Pisarev said Glonass users would make up around 7% of Russia's population. Glonass is the acronym for the Global Navigation Satellite System, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System ... more Second satellite to be launched for EU Galileo satnav project 
Luxembourg (AFP) April 7, 2008A second experimental satellite for the EU's Galileo satellite navigation project will be launched from Kazakhstan on April 27, the European Commission announced Monday. The "Giove B" satellite, propelled by a Russian Soyuz rocket will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the early hours of the morning but a year late. The long-delayed European project is meant to challenge the ... more |
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Sochi, Russia (SPX) Apr 07, 2008The United States and Russia, in their Joint Declaration of May 24, 2002, have reaffirmed that the era in which the United States and Russia considered one another an enemy or strategic threat has ended. We reject the zero-sum thinking of the Cold War when "what was good for Russia was bad for America" and vice versa. Rather, we are dedicated to working together and with other nations to a ... more Russia considers ban on baby seal hunting: ministry 
Moscow (AFP) April 7, 2008Russia is considering a ban on hunting baby seals, a practice that kills some 35,000 animals each year in the country, the natural resources ministry said Monday. "We consider it necessary," a ministry spokeswoman told AFP when asked about a possible ban. "It is not allowed in any other country." "A document is being prepared" on the matter, the spokeswoman said, but would not give any ... more Analysis: U.S. eyes Ukraine energy routes 
Washington, April 7, 2008 What a difference two decades and a generation make. On Aug. 1, 1991, President George H.W. Bush in Kiev addressed a session of Ukraine's Supreme Soviet. In a speech written by his Soviet and East European Affairs Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Bush cautioned the Ukrainian lawmakers Americans "will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism." New York Times columnist William Safire ... more Rocket rolled out for Korean astronaut's launch 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 6, 2008The Soyuz rocket due to take South Korea's first astronaut into space was rolled out of its hangar on Sunday as dawn broke over the steppes surrounding Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome. A locomotive dragged the 50-metre (160-foot) rocket bearing the South Korean and Russian flags to the same launch pad from which Soviet icon Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, blasted off on his historic mission ... more
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