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South Korea Warns North Satellite Launch Would Breach UN Order Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 25, 2009 
The launch of even a non-military satellite by North Korea would be considered a breach of a UN Security Council resolution, South Korea's ambassador to Russia told journalists on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday, a spokesman from North Korea's Committee on Aerospace Technologies said preparations were underway on the eastern coast of the country to launch a telecommunications satellite, though ... read more
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ILS And AsiaSat Announce Proton Launch Of AsiaSat 5 Satellite
Reston VA (SPX) Feb 25, 2009International Launch Services (ILS) and Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) have announced a contract for the launch of AsiaSat 5 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California, and is expected to be delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early this summer. ILS and Khrunichev are implementing a mission ... more Launch date to be set for Iran's first nuclear plant 
Tehran (AFP) Feb 24, 2009Iran and Russia will announce on Wednesday a date for the Islamic republic's first nuclear power plant to go operational, the official IRNA news agency reported. "The exact date for the start of operations at Bushehr nuclear plant will be announced at the plant on Wednesday," the spokesman for Russia's federal nuclear agency, Sergei Novikov, told IRNA in Moscow. Iran plans to carry out ... more Satellite Collision Debris May Hamper Space Launches 
St. Petersburg, Russia (RIA) Feb 23, 2009The debris from a recent collision involving two communications satellites could pose a serious threat for future launches of spacecraft into a geostationary orbit, a Russian scientist said on Friday. One of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian Cosmos-2251 satellite launched in 1993 and believed to be defunct collided on February 10 about 800 kilometers ... more China slams Russian attitude to sunken ship: report 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 20, 2009China's foreign ministry said Friday Russia's attitude to the sinking of a Chinese cargo ship by a Russian warship was "unacceptable", according to Chinese state media. Eight of the 16 crew members on board were killed when shots from a Russian naval vessel sank the Chinese-owned cargo ship the New Star off Russia's east coast on Sunday. Russia has blamed the cargo ship's captain for the ... more BMD Focus: Biden dances in Munich 
Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2009 Russia has accepted a first crucial olive branch offered by the Obama administration that may lead to the scrapping of America's planned ballistic missile defense bases in Central Europe. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden announced at the annual Munich Security Conference on Feb. 7 that while the Obama administration was still going ahead with plans to build the new bases in Poland and the ... more |
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Moscow (RIA) Feb 20, 2009Preparations are underway for a manned mission to Mars. Cosmonauts who might fly to the Red Planet are learning how to survive in a forest outside Moscow. Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medical and Biological Problems are assessing the impact of cosmic radiation on living organisms, one of which even managed to survive in outer space. Anatoly Grigoryev, vice ... more Satellite traffic control system urged 
Vienna (UPI) Feb 18, 2009 Last week's collision of U.S. and Russian satellites has prompted the call for creation of an International Civil Space Situational Awareness system. Brian Weeden, a consultant for the Secure World Foundation in Superior, Colo., proposed the concept Tuesday in Vienna during a meeting of a subcommittee of the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Weeden said the ... more Swords and Shields: Cutting supply lines 
Washington (UPI) Feb 18, 2009 Despite Moscow's assurances of support and cooperation in efforts to defeat the Taliban, Russia appears to be working hard to undermine NATO supply lines to the troops in Afghanistan. The coalition forces have used part of Manas Air Base as a military airfield since December 2001. They have set up semi-permanent hangars, aircraft maintenance facilities and a cargo depot, as well as ... more Iranian defence minister in Russia on missile quest 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 17, 2009Iran's defence minister on Tuesday met his Russian counterpart with the reported aim of persuading Moscow to deliver sophisticated air-defence missiles at a time of mounting tension with the West. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar met his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov, in "constructive" talks which looked at present and future Russian-Iranian defence relations, the Russian defence ministry ... more |
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Korolyov, Russia (RIA) Feb 14, 2009The remnants of the U.S. and Russian satellites that collided on Tuesday poses a serious threat to other satellites on the same orbit, a Russian Mission Control official told journalists on Friday. "800 kilometers is a very popular orbit for remote Earth sensing and telecommunications satellites," said Vladimir Solovyov, head of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. ... more Russian supply craft arrives at space station: agency 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 13, 2009A Russian cargo ship docked on Friday with the International Space Station carrying clothes, food, oxygen, medical supplies, fuel and a new space suit, RIA Novosti reported from space control centre. The Progress M-66 carrying 2.4 tonnes of cargo docked without difficulty to the orbiting space station, currently home to two Americans and a Russian. It also carried equipment for scientifi ... more Russia Blames Iridium 
Moscow (XNA) Feb 14, 2009The collision between two satellites of the United States and Russia on Tuesday would be the result of a failure on the part of the U.S. Iridium satellite, an official of the Russian Defense Ministry told Xinhua Thursday. The orbit about 800 km above the Earth is called the "junk orbit," where defunct satellites from different countries gather together, said Yuri Ivanov, an official of the ... more Satellite Collision Not To Delay China's Space Program 
Beijing, China (XNA) Feb 14, 2009The wreckage of US and Russian satellites that collided over Siberia poses a threat to China's satellites in orbit, but the country's space plan will proceed as scheduled. A privately owned US communications spacecraft collided with a defunct Russian military satellite about 800 km above northern Siberia at 4:55 pm GMT on Tuesday, according to the US Strategic Command, which made it public ... more
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