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Satellite collision threatens space assets Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2009 
A Russian and a US satellite crashed into each other in an unprecedented collision unleashing clouds of space debris that could threaten orbiting spacecraft, officials said Thursday. A disused Russian military satellite, Kosmos 2251, collided on Tuesday at 1655 GMT with a communications satellite owned by US-based Iridium Satellite LLC, Russian and US space officials said. The accident ... read more
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Pentagon fails to anticipate satellite collision
Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2009The Pentagon acknowledged Thursday that it did not anticipate the accidental collision in space of a US commercial satellite with a Russian military satellite, the first major event of its kind. "We did not predict this collision," said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. The Bethesda, Maryland-based Iridium Satellite LLC announced Wednesday it had lost an operational satellite after a ... more EU lays out voluntary space code 
Geneva (AFP) Feb 12, 2009The European Union on Thursday presented a proposal for a voluntary international code on the use of outer space to the Conference on Disarmament, just days after a Russian and US satellite collided. The draft code on civilian and military use, which includes pledges on the integrity of orbiting space objects, was already approved by EU ministers on December 8, the Czech Presidency of the bl ... more Satellite collision raises concern over space traffic, debris 
Paris (AFP) Feb 12, 2009An unprecedented collision between a Russian and US satellite will fuel concern over the lack of traffic controls in space and the rising volumes of junk that endanger vital satellites and manned flight. A disused Russian military satellite, Cosmos 2251, collided on Tuesday with a US communications satellite owned by the Iridium company, some 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth, Russi ... more Satellite collision poses 'small' risk to ISS: NASA 
Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2009An unprecedented collision between a Russian and a US satellite poses an "elevated" but "very small" risk to the International Space Station, the US space agency said Thursday. "So far, NASA experts have determined that the risk to the space station is elevated. They estimate the risk to be very small and within acceptable limits," NASA spokesman John Yembrick told AFP. "NASA's Earth-obs ... more When Satellites Collide 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Feb 11, 2009We have been speculating that pieces of space debris occasionally hit active satellites, but we had no concrete evidence to confirm such a hypothesis. All that has changed in an instant. On February 10th, an active commercial satellite and an expired Russian Cosmos spacecraft apparently tried to cross the same point in space at the same time. Both vehicles were traveling at about ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Feb 12, 2009 Iran is filling an investment gap in Tajikistan left by the United States and Russia, agreeing to spend on hydropower and other quality-of-life projects. Iran has offered to help Tajikistan complete the construction of the 3,600 megawatt Rogun hydroelectric power station on the Vakhsh River, 70 miles east of the capital, Dushanbe. If built, it would be Central Asia's largest. ... more Corporate profits crash as world awaits key US plan 
Brussels (AFP) Feb 12, 2009The economic crisis wiped out profits at top world businesses on Wednesday and forced Russia to slash its defence spending as investors awaited key votes on a plan to kick-start the US economy. Meanwhile factory output in the recession-hit eurozone was reported by the EU's data agency to have fallen by 2.6 percent in December and by 12 percent for 2008 as a whole, the biggest slumps since ... more US, Russian Satellites Collide Over Siberia 
Washington (AFP) Feb 11, 2009Two satellites collided in space hundreds of miles (kilometers) above Earth, destroying an Iridium commercial satellite in a crash that may result in disruption of service, the US company said Wednesday. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company said it "lost an operational satellite" after it was struck Tuesday by a spent Russian satellite, in what is being described as the first major collision ... more Proton-M Rocket Orbits 2 New Telecom Satellites 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (RIA) Feb 12, 2009A Proton-M rocket has successfully orbited two new Russian Express-series communications satellites, a Russian federal space agency official said on Wednesday. The rocket blasted off at 3:03 a.m. Moscow time (00:03 GMT) from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan and put the satellites into orbit as previously scheduled at 12:29 p.m. (09:29 GMT). Anatoly Shilov, the head of Roscomos ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Feb 11, 2009Russia is ready to give more help supplying Western operations in Afghanistan but only on the basis of full respect from NATO members, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. Lavrov reiterated that Moscow had already given the United States a "positive answer", enabling non-military supplies to transit through Russia to Afghanistan. "Additional steps are also possible. In April ... more Jail sentence sought for Mitterrand's son over arms-to-Angola 
Paris (AFP) Feb 11, 2009French prosecutors on Wednesday called for a one-year jail sentence against late president Francois Mitterrand's son and six years for two businessmen in the arms-to-Angola scandal in the 1990s. Wrapping up a four-month trial, prosecutors sought the toughest jail terms for Russian-born Israeli businessman Arkadi Gaydamak and his French associate Pierre Falcone for the weapons shipments worth ... more Defense Focus: Russia-China arms slump 
Washington (UPI) Feb 10, 2009 Far from rising, as so many Western pundits have predicted for so long, Russian arms sales to China may plummet by at least 75 percent in the immediate future, the CEO of Russia's main official arms exporting corporation warned last Wednesday. Arms exports to China could shrivel from the current 40 percent of the value of annual Russian arms exports to only 10 percent, Anatoly Isaikin ... more Azerbaijan air force chief shot dead 
Baku (AFP) Feb 11, 2009The chief of Azerbaijan's air force was shot dead outside his home early Wednesday, the highest ranking military official to be killed in the oil-rich republic wedged between Russia and Iran. Lieutenant-General Rail Rzayev, 64, was gunned down outside his home in the capital Baku as he left for work, interior ministry spokesman Sadiq Gozalov told AFP. "The general was shot and received a ... more
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