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Russian cargo ship docks with the ISS: report
Moscow (AFP) May 17, 2008A Russian Progress M-64 cargo ship docked Saturday with the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported. The cargo ship, launched early Thursday, docked with the ISS automatically, the report added. The station's three-man crew, Russians Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and American Garrett Reisman, were expected to open the hatch to the cargo ship within a couple of h ... more World powers work out details of new offer to Iran 
Washington (AFP) May 16, 2008Six world powers have completed the details of a "refreshed" offer they will present to Iran in an effort to persuade it to halt its controversial nuclear activities, a US official said Friday. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China agreed earlier this month to make a new offer to Iran, but a date has yet to be set for it to be delivered to the Islamic republic. ... more Analysis: China copter deal -- Part 3 
Washington (UPI) May 15, 2008 Russia's landmark sale of transport helicopter assembly kits to be assembled in China could point the way to a vastly larger transformation in global arms production. As we reported Tuesday, the Russian Helicopter Co., which is now run by Oboronprom, has concluded a deal to sell assembly kits to build M1-171 military transport helicopters to China's Lantian Helicopter Co., which is loca ... more Analysis: Russia spies on German firms 
Berlin (UPI) May 16, 2008 The German government has accused foreign intelligence services -- blaming mainly Russian agents -- of having spied on German companies. "In the course of the global competition over market share and market dominance, industrial espionage is becoming increasingly important," a new government report on terrorism, political extremism and intelligence found. This industrial espionage hurts ... more Russian scientists announce 'spaceroach' grandchildren: report 
Moscow (AFP) May 15, 2008Russian space scientists announced on Thursday a new breakthrough in a long pedigree of firsts: the birth of 30 grandchildren of a "space cockroach" who spent 12 days in orbit. Interfax news agency reported the birth of 30 healthy descendants of the pioneering cockroach Nadezhda (Hope), who conceived last September in an orbiting laboratory named Foton-M. Unlike Nadezhda's children, who ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 14, 2008 Rising fuel and food costs are hitting Mongolia hard, with foreign investors exploiting the situation to pressure the country to open up its economy. Given the country's political isolation, sandwiched between China and Russia, its two major trading partners, Ulaanbaatar is being held over the proverbial barrel in negotiations with its giant neighbors, leaving its population of 2.9 million ... more Russian cargo ship lifts off for International Space Station 
Moscow (AFP) May 14, 2008Russian cargo ship Progress M-64 set off from Kazakhstan overnight on Wednesday for the International Space Station, the centre for control of space flights (Tsoup) told national news agencies. The spacecraft was launched "as planned" at a little after midnight local time (2023 GMT) and is due to arrive at the ISS on Saturday, said a spokesman. Progress is delivering a three-tonne cargo ... more Russia, Europe ink deal on new manned spacecraft 
Moscow (AFP) May 14, 2008The Russian and European space agencies have signed a deal to build a six-seat manned spacecraft to travel to the Moon, a Russian space official said Wednesday. Russian space agency Roskosmos and the European Space Agency "on Tuesday signed an accord on the creation of a manned vessel to transport up to six people around the Earth and to the Moon," Roskosmos spokesman Alexander Vorobyev told ... more Walker's World: Building with BRICs 
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2008 The concept of the BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- was coined five years ago in a research paper from the Goldman Sachs investment bank. This week, reality takes over from theory as the foreign ministers of the BRIC countries hold their first formal meeting in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. They convene with an agenda that includes the issue of biofuels, food ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) May 14, 2008South Korea's first astronaut has left hospital after treatment for severe back pain caused by her unexpectedly rough return to earth, officials said Wednesday. Yi So-Yeon, 29, had been admitted to an air force hospital in late April with dislocation and bruising of the vertebrae caused during her return from the International Space Station on April 19. Yi's Russian-designed Soyuz ca ... more Soyuz Carrier Rocket Set To Blast Off With New Progress Space Truck To Space Station 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2008A Soyuz-U carrier rocket is due to blast off from Baikonur space center Thursday to deliver a Progress M-64 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), a Mission Control spokesman said on Tuesday. The Russian carrier rocket is due to be launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 0:23 a.m. Moscow time on May 15 (20:23 GMT May 14) and the Progress is scheduled to dock with the ISS on ... more Outside View: Russian-Iran nuke moves 
Moscow (UPI) May 13, 2008 Former Russian President Vladimir Putin's last-minute decision to fulfill U.N. Security Council Resolution 1803 on Iran before handing over power to his successor, President Dmitry Medvedev, surprised many. Has Russia decided to join the U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic? Will the new president shift Russia's policy regarding Iran to the West? According to one version, in an a ... more Analysis: China copter deal -- Part 1
Washington (UPI) May 13, 2008 The long freeze in Russia's enormously lucrative arms trade with China may be coming to an end as the Kremlin has agreed to sell Mi-171 transport helicopter assembly kits to Beijing. On May 12, Russia's official RIA Novosti news agency cited a report in the Moscow business newspaper Vedomosti that a manufacturing plant in southwest China had begun work on integrating Russian-designed Mi ... more
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