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Russia Should Promote Hi-Tech, Not Just Space Services - Putin
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008Russia should not only be involved in orbiting foreign-made satellites and payloads but promote its hi-tech developments and services, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. "We need to significantly expand our presence on the global market for space products and services," he said. He said an effective space program could become a significant factor in innovative economic development, calling fo ... more Scrap unlucky 13th mission: Russian space chief 
Moscow (AFP) April 14, 2008The next Russian spacecraft should be renamed to avoid the traditionally unlucky number 13, believes the head of Russia's space agency. "In Russia, many people have superstitious beliefs -- black cats, Mondays, the number 13. That's why I think that it is a good idea to change the number of the next space ship," said Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, according to ... more Space Research Can Improve Life On Earth 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008Countries sending their citizens into space for the first time proudly call them their Gagarins, with good reason. Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961. Since then, many countries joined space exploration, and Russia has recently sent its 101st and 102nd cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS). They will work together with South Korea's Yi So-y ... more Statue To Pioneering Russian Space Dog Unveiled In Moscow 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008A bronze monument to a former street dog called Laika, which was the first living creature in space and paved the way for manned flights, was unveiled in northwest Moscow on Friday. The monument, erected a day before Russia's Cosmonautics Day celebrated on April 12, is a two-meter (6.5 feet) high space rocket with Laika proudly standing on top. The three-year-old mongrel, originally named ... more Five Orphaned Bears Get A New Life In Russia - Satellite Tracking Will Monitor Survival 
Bubonitsy, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2008In the forest of the Tver region of Russia, researchers from IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) and veterinarians from the Moscow Zoo have returned five orphaned bear cubs to the wild. Prior to the release, the team performed veterinary checks and tagged the bears for monitoring. One of these bears will be monitored using a satellite collar, a step forward in evaluating post ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008Russia will end manned space launches from Kazakhstan's Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome by 2020, replacing it with a launch pad in Russia, a top official said Friday, Interfax news agency reported. All cosmonauts will instead take off from the new Vostochny base, planned in Russia's southeast near the Chinese border, the head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Anatoly Perminov, was quoted ... more Russia Could Stop Tourist Flights To ISS From 2010
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 11, 2008Space tourist flights to the International Space Station could be stopped from 2010 due to a planned increase in crew numbers on the station, the head of the Russian space agency said Friday. "As part of our current program, space tourist flights to the ISS will continue. But from 2010, difficulties could emerge due to planned increases in ISS crew numbers to between six and nine members ... more South Korean To Star In Space Sing-Song 
Moscow (AFP) April 12, 2008South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-Yeon, was to star Saturday in celebratory sing-song aboard the crowded International Space Station (ISS) as back on Earth Russia marked the 47th anniversary of sending the first man in space. Yi, 29, docked Thursday along with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko after a successful Soyuz space capsule journey from the Russian cosmodrome at ... more Kiev accuses Moscow of meddling after NATO remarks 
Kiev (AFP) April 12, 2008Kiev accused Moscow Saturday of meddling in its internal affairs, a day after Russia's armed forces chief warned of military steps in reaction to Georgia's and Ukraine's desire to join NATO. "The declarations of high Russian officials have an openly anti-Ukrainian nature, questioning the territorial integrity of Ukraine and constitute meddling in the internal affairs" of the country, the for ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Apr 10, 2008The number of spacecraft to be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan will increase 33%, year-on-year, in 2008 to a total of 28, the local mayor said on Tuesday. Baikonur, built in Kazakhstan in the 1950s, was first leased by Russia from Kazakhstan under an agreement signed in 1994 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russian officials have repeatedly said Russia will continue ... more Outside View: Ukraine fears of nuke safety 
Moscow, April 9, 2008 Global utility giant Westinghouse Electric Co. and Ukraine's power utility Energoatom have signed a deal to supply Ukraine's nuclear power plants with fuel from 2011-2015. Under the contract, concluded on March 31, 630 fuel assemblies will be loaded inside three local reactors. "This contract represents a major commitment from both Westinghouse and Ukraine in ensuring that alternative ... more Analysis: Hurdles for Siberia oil to Asia 
Washington, April 10, 2008 The Russian Federation's vast geography has made the issue of supplying the lucrative eastern Asian markets problematic, but that is about to change as Russia has undertaken a massive pipeline project to supply crude to Asian markets. Russia's Soviet-era pipeline network was designed to bring western Siberian crude westward to the Soviet Union's industrial heartland. Since independence, ... more 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
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