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NASA official says no major problem with Russian capsule
Washington (AFP) April 23, 2008The irregular landing of a Russian space capsule last week is not a "major problem," a top NASA official said, despite reports that the astronauts on board could have died. "I don't see this as a major problem, but it is clearly something that should not have occurred," said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations. He added: "I think there is inherent reliability ... more Outside View: Su-34 strategy -- Part 2 
Moscow, April 23, 2008 The Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback aircraft's remarkable qualities give Russia the option of using a relatively small number of them as an elite strike force. This is not a new concept. Elite units of top-class aircraft manned by superbly trained crews formed the core of the German air force, the Luftwaffe, during World War II, and Japan's Imperial Navy had a similar concept. However ... more Fire sweeps through Siberian forests 
Moscow (AFP) April 23, 2008Russian fire services were on Wednesday battling blazes across Siberia blamed on an exceptionally mild winter and illegal logging. The emergency situations ministry said on its website that 36,000 hectares (89,000 acres) were burning in the Amur, Buryatiya, Khabarovsk, Primorsky and Jewish Autonomous provinces. Another 11,000 hectares (27,000 acres) of forest had been consumed by fire in ... more Nuclear waste storage inaugurated in Chernobyl 
Kiev (AFP) April 23, 2008Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko Wednesday inaugurated a nuclear waste storage and processing centre in the contaminated zone around the Chernobyl nuclear station ahead of the catastrophe's 22nd anniversary, his press service said. The centre's first module, constructed with the European Commission's aid, would be launched by the end of the year, Valentin Melnichenko, a project official ... more Space station crew lucky to survive re-entry: agency 
Moscow (AFP) April 22, 2008Three astronauts were lucky to survive a dangerous re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere last week, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday, citing a source close to an investigation into the incident. "The fact that the crew members remained unharmed, in one piece, was very lucky. Everything could have ended much worse," the source was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. Their fate ... more |
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Baku (AFP) April 22, 2008Azerbaijan said on Tuesday it had detained a Russian shipment intended for the Iranian nuclear power plant under construction at Bushehr due to concerns that it might violate UN sanctions. Foreign ministry spokesman Khazar Ibragim told AFP that Azerbaijan had stopped the shipment at its border with southern neighbour Iran because Russia had failed to provide detailed information on its ... more Analysis: EU and Central Asian gas 
Washington, April 22, 2008 The European Union, gazing hungrily at Central Asia's vast oil and natural gas deposits, has long sought to weaken Russia's grip over Caspian exports. Now the EU has succeeded in getting its nose under the Turkmen tent, and in Moscow Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller must be drowning his sorrows, as Russia provides about 40 percent of the EU's natural gas imports. On April 9 ... more Astronauts upbeat after hard 'ballistic' landing 
Star City, Russia (AFP) April 21, 2008The first South Korean in space together with the American and a Russian who accompanied her said on Monday they were recovering well after a gruelling "ballistic" descent to Earth. Yi So-Yeon, who returned from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday in an irregular landing that subjected the crew to huge gravitational forces, said there had been nothing to worry about either ... more Analysis: Russian waterways may open 
Completely unnoticed in the Western media, a Russian transport initiative holds promise to revolutionize the maritime carriage of products throughout Eurasia, including the oil and natural gas so hungrily sought by European consumers. The good news, according to Russia's Sea and River Transport Federal Agency head Alexandr Davydenko, is the Russian Federation is preparing to open the ... more |
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Moscow (XNA) Apr 14, 2008Russia is going to create a manned assembly complex in orbit, the chief of the Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov said here on Saturday. "We shall create this complex in order to make dockings in orbit, build craft there and send them to the Moon, Mars and other planets," Perminov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as telling a new briefing. "This proposal was on the wh ... more New Russian Telecoms Satellite Starts Work 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008Russia's new Express-AM33 telecommunications satellite that was orbited in late January has started operations, the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) said on Tuesday. 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 ... more Russia To Build New Space Center In The Far East 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008In January, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said that 2008 would be a "landmark year for Russian cosmonautics". Now the Russian Security Council, which met in Moscow under President Putin's chairmanship on April 11, ahead of Cosmonautics Day, has defined where that landmark will be. The Council said that the key program of Russia's space industry (at least as regards ground ... more Russia Continues Flight Simulation Experiments For Mars-500 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008Four volunteers will spend ten days in a compression chamber with a reduced oxygen level as preparation for Mars-500, a Russian ground-based experiment to simulate a flight to Mars. A spokesman for the Moscow-based Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Issues, which runs the project, said that four healthy men will be held in a chamber with the pressure equivalent to being five meters ... more
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