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The Space Junk Threat Complexity Part 2
Moscow (UPI) June 14, 2007Currently, 44 radiation sources from Russia are parked in the "burial orbit" of space. They are: two satellites with unseparated nuclear power units (Cosmos-1818 and Cosmos-1867), fuel assemblies and 12 closed-down reactors with a liquid metal coolant, 15 nuclear-fuel assemblies and 15 fuel-free units with a coolant in the secondary cooling loop. They are to spend no less than 300 to 400 passive ... more Russia Confirms Arrest Of Space Official For Spying In Austria 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 15, 2007A Russian national detained by Austrian police on allegations of spying is an employee of the Russian Space Agency, an agency's spokesman said Thursday. "We confirm that a [Russian] citizen arrested in Vienna is an employee of the Russian Federal Space Agency," Igor Panarin said. A popular Austrian daily, the Kurier, said Wednesday that police in the town of Gmunden in northern Austria had ... more US Says Nothing To Fear From New Nuclear Warheads As Shields Go Up 
Washington (AFP) June 14, 2007The United States Thursday defended plans to overhaul its sea-based nuclear arsenal with a new generation of warheads, arguing the program did not pose any extra threat to nations like Russia. The administration wants to replace much of its Cold War stockpile with a new "Reliable Replacement Warhead" (RRW) that it argues would be safer and cheaper to maintain over the coming decades. ... more Russian Utility Eyes 700-Million-Euro Kyoto Windfall 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 15, 2007Russia's electricity monopoly United Energy Systems hopes to attract investment worth 700 million euros under the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming, CEO Anatoly Chubais said on Thursday. But he also issued a warning to consumers that they would have to foot the bill for technology needed to limit emissions within Russia, where electricity production has been booming. "Our aim is to ... more Communications with computers running ISS oxygen, water resume 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 14, 2007After hours of a glitch in Russian computers that control the International Space Station's critical oxygen and water supplies, communications with the systems have resumed, NASA spokesmen said Thursday. "They had a problem with those computers going off-line overnight," NASA spokesman Bill Jeffs told AFP from Houston, Texas. The first such mishap of its kind raised concerns the mission might have to be cut short. But now "they have reestablished communications" with the module and Russian central computers, Jeffs said. ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 14, 2007One of the main sensations of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm was President Vladimir Putin's surprise proposal to his American colleague George W. Bush to exchange the radar in the Czech Republic for the Russia-rented radar system in Azerbaijan. Competent people know that this idea had been discussed prior to the summit and was only presented in Heiligendamm - no more than that. Putin knew w ... more Detente Over Fear Of Iran 
Berlin (UPI) June 13, 2007While a joint U.S.-Russian missile defense system operated from a radar station in Azerbaijan may not make much sense, Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal established one fact: Iran is seen by both powers as a serious threat -- an assessment that could help the West in convincing Moscow to agree to harsher economic sanctions. Putin's proposal at the Group of Eight summit to operate ... more Rosneft To Invest A Billion Dollars ln New Fleet To Tap Far East Shelf Oil Deposits 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 14, 2007Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft plans to spend $1.2 billion on the construction of ships to develop oil fields off Russia's Far East coast, the company's CEO said Wednesday. Addressing a conference on prospects for maritime operations, Sergei Bogdanchikov said Rosneft currently needed to build 27 vessels for the development of shelf deposits. Three of the ships are already under const ... more Defence Treaty Guarantees Security In Post-Cold War Europe 
Vienna (AFP) June 12, 2007The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, which is being reviewed this week in Vienna at Russia's request, is one of the key post-Cold War security accords in Europe. The CFE was signed on November 19, 1990 in Paris by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact -- two opposing blocs during the Cold War -- and was modified in 1999 to adapt it to the European security ... more |
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Washington (UPI) June 12, 2007Moves by European nations to develop their own ballistic missile defense systems took a significant step forward last week when the Assembly of the Western European Union, meeting in Paris, called for "the development of an 'anti-missile concept.'" The WEU said the new program should be "driven by European interests" and that it should be "inter-operable with the United States Ballistic Missile ... more ESA Satellite Guides Polar Explorers Across Disintegrating Sea Ice 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 13, 2007Two Belgian explorers currently nearing the end of a staggering 2 000 km trek across the Arctic Ocean were recently guided through hazardous conditions using observations from Envisat, as sea ice in the Lincoln Sea began to break up unexpectedly. Throughout the Arctic Arc expedition, which marks the International Polar Year, Alan Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have been collecting snow-depth data f ... more Who Cyber Smacked Estonia 
Washington (UPI) June 11, 2007The recent cyber attacks on Estonian government networks were likely carried out by politically motivated hacker gangs, not Russian security agencies as some early reports suggested, according to assessments conducted by the U.S. government and the private sector. The attacks were crude so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, utilizing global networks, or botnets, of com ... more Russia Agrees To Help End North Korea Banking Row 
Washington (AFP) June 11, 2007Russia has agreed to help the United States break the impasse over a long-running banking dispute blocking North Korea's nuclear disarmament, the US Treasury said Monday. Moscow reportedly granted a US request for a private Russian bank to accept purportedly illicit North Korean funds currently frozen in Macau's Banco Delta Asia (BDA) before they are moved to Pyongyang. "The United States ... more
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