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Russia To Orbit Six Glonass Satellites By Year End
Sochi, Russia (SPX) Sep 22, 2008Russia plans to launch six satellites in the next three months to increase the existing Glonass (INFOgraphics) grouping to 18-19 spacecraft, a leading satellite manufacturer said on Friday. Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System) is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), which is designed for both military and civilian use, and allows users to identify the ... more Outside View: Reusable rocket breakthrough 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 19, 2008 Russian space launch vehicles are winning even more popularity with potential customers, as domestic engine developers have managed to create a versatile, reusable liquid-propellant engine, bringing to life an old dream of the world's rocket engineers. The Energomash Science and Production Association has developed the new RD-191 rocket engine, meant to equip Angara advanced carrier ... more Russia launches Canadian telecom satellite: report 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 20, 2008A Proton-M rocket carrying a Canadian telecommunications satellite took off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported. "The launch was made as scheduled at 01:48 am Moscow time (2148 GMT)," an official of Russia's Khrunichev space centre was quoted as saying. The 4,850-kilogramme (10,670-pound) Nimiq-4 satellite, constructed ... more France to buy 10 Soyuz launchers from Russia 
Sochi, Russia (AFP) Sept 20, 2008The European commercial space-launch consortium Arianespace on Saturday signed a deal with the Russian space agency Roskosmos to acquire 10 new Soyuz launchers for around 500 million dollars (347 million euros), a French diplomatic source told AFP. The contract was signed on the sidelines of a visit by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon to Sochi in southern Russia where he met his Russian ... more The Coming War Might Be A Hot One Part Three 
Washington (UPI) Sep 19, 2008 Small wars result in low casualties and negligible weapons attrition for the victor -- especially if it is a superpower. That was certainly the case in Russia's five days of military operations in the former Soviet republic of Georgia in the Caucasus from Aug. 8 to 12. According to Ilya Kramnik, the widely respected RIA Novosti military correspondent, the Russian army suffered only 71 ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Sept 18, 2008Russia said Thursday it had test-fired a new-generation strategic missile from a submarine, the latest launch of a multiple-warhead weapon designed to breach anti-missile shields. "A new-generation Bulava ballistic missile was successfully fired from the White Sea to the Kura testing site in Kamchatka" in Russia's far east, the Russian navy said in a statement. The Bulava, which the ... more Ukrainian military holds anti-invasion exercises 
Rivne, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 18, 2008Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko oversaw military exercises Thursday aimed at preparing to fight off an invasion amid growing tensions with Russia. "The Ukrainian army can fulfil its constitutional duty" to defend Ukraine, Yushchenko told journalists after watching 3,000 troops, as well as fighter aircraft, tanks and helicopters, take part in the exercises. A spokesman for the ... more Thompson Files: Nuclear deterrent at risk 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Sep 18, 2008 Here's a quick quiz about national security. What is the single greatest danger to America's survival? Global terrorism? Biological warfare? Cyberattacks? Nope, none of the above. The biggest threat by far is still the Russian nuclear arsenal. If Russian leaders decided to launch a large-scale strategic missile attack against America right now, most of the people you know would be dead by suns ... more Russia row shows NATO needs reality check: IISS 
London (AFP) Sept 18, 2008NATO would be making a major strategic error trying to expand in the face of Russian anger, a respected international think tank said Thursday. NATO must not play "Russian roulette" with the Kremlin as it considers how to respond to Moscow's "disproportionate" use of force in Georgia, said the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. The IISS questioned whether the US ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Sept 17, 2008Russia could include Cuba and Venezuela into a satellite navigation system originally designed for missile targeting by the Soviet military, the head of Russia's space agency said Wednesday. "We discussed the theme of joint use of the Glonass satellite navigation system," Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying, referring to talks with the authorities ... more Russia Begins Elbowing Ukraine Out From Brazil's Space Program 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 18, 2008"Germany, Brazil and Argentina have all expressed an interest in using the Ukrainian launch vehicle Cyclone-4 for orbiting their satellites," said Eduard Kuznetsov, deputy general director of Ukraine's National Space Agency. He said protocols were already drawn up for using it in 2011-2014. Indeed, the Cyclone-4 project is crucial for Ukraine's future. If the project proceeds, it ... more Russia To Address Militarization Of Space At UN General Assembly 
New York NY (RIA Novosti) Sep 18, 2008The demilitarization of space and preventing the glorification of Nazism will be top priorities for the Russian delegation at the UN General Assembly, Russia's envoy to the UN said. "For us, our draft resolution against militarization of space will be of particular importance," Vitaly Churkin said Tuesday as the 63d session of the General Assembly opened Tuesday at the UN headquarters in ... more Resupply spacecraft docks with International Space Station 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 17, 2008The Russian unmanned resupply spacecraft Progress M-65 docked with the International Space Station on Wednesday, four days late due to Hurricane Ike, the Interfax news agency reported. The three astronauts inside the space station will open the hatch of the expendable 2.5 tonne spacecraft -- which carries fuel, food, oxygen and other supplies -- on Thursday after its successful automatic ... more
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