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Solar Mission Launch Starts Busy Year For Russian Space Agency Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2008 
Russia will start off its new space year in January by launching an orbital laboratory to study the sun's activity, a spokesman for Russia's space agency told RIA Novosti on Thursday. On January 29, Roscosmos will launch its Complex Orbital Near-Earth Observations of Solar Activity (Coronas) from the Baikonur space center, the spokesman for space projects said, describing the mission as pa ... read more
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Russia Launches Rocket With Three New Glonass Satellites
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2008Russia launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on Thursday with three Glonass navigation satellites on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a space agency spokesman said. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to determi ... more ISS Astronauts Successfully Complete Spacewalk 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 23, 2008Astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully completed their spacewalk on Tuesday, Russia's Mission Control said. The ISS commander American Michael Fincke and Russian engineer Yury Lonchakov, who arrived on the orbital station in October, closed the hatch to the Pirs docking station at 09:29 a.m. Moscow Time (06:29 GMT). The spacewalk, which was delayed by 37 minutes after las ... more Pakistan says no war with India amid calls for calm 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 27, 2008Pakistan again said Saturday it did not want war with India, as the international community tried to defuse tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours after Islamabad moved troops to the border. The United States and Russia led calls for calm in both Islamabad and New Delhi in a bid to improve ties that have deteriorated in the month since the Mumbai attacks, which India has blamed on Pak ... more Russia selling surface-to-air missiles to Libya, Syria: report 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 26, 2008Russia has begun to fulfil a 250-million-dollar contract to deliver surface-to-air missiles to seven countries including Libya, Syria and Venezuela, the Vedomosti business daily reported Friday. Russia will also deliver the S-125 Pechora-2M missile batteries to Egypt, Myanmar, Vietnam and Turkmenistan under the contract, the newspaper said, citing a source in the state-owned Russian Technolo ... more New Russian sea-based missile fails again in test: report 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 23, 2008A test-firing of a new Russian sea-based missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads ended in failure Tuesday when the weapon disintegrated after launch, the Interfax news agency reported. "After its firing from the submarine Dmitry Donskoy, the Bulava missile self-liquidated and exploded in the air," a military source told the agency. Interfax said this was the eighth test lau ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 23, 2008 A leading Iranian parliamentarian claimed Sunday that Russia had begun to send sections of its S-300 anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense system to Iran. The politically explosive claim could seriously damage the incoming Obama administration's hopes of improving relations with Russia and even reaching agreement to replace the aging 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expires ... more Analysis: Rivals in Africa -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 24, 2008 The People's Republic of China is increasingly challenging Russia in the African arms trade, offering lower prices on weapons that, ironically, are often made in China with Russian technologies. Chinese products are less expensive than Russian and Western systems. They are similar to the Russian systems that many African countries are familiar with, and they are also easy to maintain an ... more Analysis: Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute 
Washington Dec 26, 2008 The winter brings with it the annual sights and sounds of the holiday season -- Christmas trees, parents searching for the "must have" gift for their children, and Kiev and Moscow squabbling over Ukraine's natural gas arrears to Russia. In one of Europe's most enduring energy sagas, according to Russian natural gas state monopoly Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov, Ukraine has announced that it ... more Russia delivers Sukhoi fighter jets to Indonesia 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 26, 2008Russia has delivered two Sukhoi fighter jets to Indonesia, the first planes to be supplied to the country out of a total order of six, Russian defence officials said on Friday. "The first two jets out of the six bought by Indonesia have been delivered to the customer," the Interfax news agency quoted a Sukhoi spokesman as saying. The two jets delivered were of the Su-30MK2 class and anot ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Dec 25, 2008Russia is optimistic about ties with the United States next year, but wants a "positive shift" on Washington's controversial missile shield from Barack Obama, a top Russian diplomat said Thursday. "I think in 2009 there will be more achievements than problems in Russian-US relations," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow. "In general we are entering 2009, the y ... more US sees no holiday cheer; Russia, China warn of grim 2009 
Washington (AFP) Dec 24, 2008US data Wednesday offered few signs of recovery from the economic malaise while Russia and China issued stark warnings about the impact of the financial crisis on their countries. Crude oil prices fell to fresh four-year lows as markets bet on a deep downturn. In Washington, the Commerce Department reported personal income contracted 0.2 percent in November from the previous month while ... more Russia To Make 39 Space Launches In 2009 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 23, 2008The Russian space agency will make 39 space launches next year from the Baikonur and Plesetsk space centers, the agency press service said on Thursday. Roscosmos said the launches would be made as part of the Federal Space Program, the Glonass federal program, an international cooperation program, and a number of commercial projects. Four Soyuz manned spaceships and five Progress ... more Astrium-Built ASTRA 1M Satellite Commissioned In Orbit 
Toulouse, France (SPX) Dec 23, 2008SES has formally accepted the ASTRA 1M satellite after having successfully completed in-orbit testing and verified its excellent performance. The satellite designed and built by Astrium is now ready for operational service. Astrium took control and commenced in-orbit operations following launch of the ASTRA 1M satellite on 5 November 2008 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellite reached ... more
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