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Frozen North Korean Funds Touch Down In Moscow
Moscow (AFP) June 18, 2007North Korea's ambassador to Moscow said Monday that funds at the centre of a banking dispute aggravating tensions around the country's nuclear programme had been successfully transferred to Russia. The comments came after Russia agreed to help with the transfer to North Korea of the funds, which were frozen at Macau's Banco Delta Asia (BDA) in 2005 under US sanctions. "The funds from the ... more SES Signs For Five ILS Protons Through 2013 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 18, 2007International Launch Services (ILS) and SES Satellite Leasing announced a contract today that calls for the launch of five SES satellites on Proton Breeze M vehicles through 2013. Financial details were not disclosed. With five firm orders, this is the largest single Proton launch services contract. The Proton vehicle, built by ILS partner Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, is Russia's premier heavy-lift launcher. ... more German Radar Satellite TerraSAR-X Launched 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jun 15, 2007The successful launch of the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X on Friday 15 June 2007 at 08:14 local time (04:14 CEST) from the Russian Cosmodrome in Baikonur (Kazakhstan) represents the start of a new level of quality in the mapping of Earth. Over the next five years, new and high-quality radar images of our planet's surface will be collected. "The aim of the five-year mission is to use radar ... more ILS Wins Arabsat-5A Contract To Launch On Proton Breeze M 
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jun 18, 2007International Launch Services (ILS) announced today it has been selected to launch a satellite for Arabsat. ILS will launch the satellite, either Arabsat-5A or BADR-5, in the 2009-2010 timeframe on a Proton Breeze M vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ILS partner Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center builds the Proton in Russia. ... more North Korean Funds Transfer Delayed In Moscow Due To Technical Issues 
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 18, 2007Technical problems in Russia are holding up the transfer of North Korean funds linked to a nuclear disarmament deal, top US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said Saturday. Hill, currently in Mongolia, told reporters that the technical problems occurred as the funds were sent to a Russian bank, Japan's Kyodo News reported. However Hill said he believed that the problems would be ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) June 16, 2007Russia is to intensify efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in order to stay in compliance with the Kyoto treaty as its economy rebounds from the economic collapse of the early 1990s, the country's deputy economic development minister said. The 1990s dramatic drop in economic production made Russia's Kyoto targets more achievable, but Moscow hopes to begin to improve remaining ... more 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 |
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Paris (AFP) June 13, 2007Getting a closer look at the stars may soon stop being the privilege of a few select billionaires, with the space arm of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company saying Wednesday it plans to have a space tourist plane in operation by 2012. The vessel, which EADS plans to start developing next year, would provide tourists with a 90-minute suborbital flight, including three minutes of wei ... more Iran's Oil Weapon 
Washington (UPI) June 13, 2007Now that U.S. President George W. Bush at the G8 summit has mended at least some of his fences with the Europeans over global warming and with Russia over installing anti-missile systems in Europe, it is time to return to the thorny problem of Iran and its nuclear ambitions. That means returning to the matter of sanctions. The plain fact is that sanctions against Iran are not working well. ... more Apropos ABM Without Hysterics 
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
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