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Russia Set To Put US Telecom Satellite Into Orbit Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 27, 2009 
Russia is planning to launch on Thursday a U.S. Telstar telecom satellite on a Zenith carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency said. "The launch of a Zenit-3SLB rocket with a Telstar-11N satellite is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. Moscow time [18:30 GMT]," the Roscosmos official said. The Telstar 11N, built by Space Systems/Loral ... read more
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Europe names crew for Mars 'mission'
Paris (AFP) Feb 26, 2009The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars. From March 31, the six "crew" will be locked inside a special facility in Moscow that replicates conditions of a space trip to Mars. The simulation will be followed by a 520-day experiment, start ... more In wilds of Central Asia, US seeks Afghan gateway 
Arys, Kazakhstan (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Snaking thousands of miles across steppe and desert, Central Asia's Russian-built railway has become an unlikely focus of the new US military strategy for Afghanistan. Still baring traces of the Tsarist era, the region's rail network and other infrastructure is now part of plans by Washington for a vital new supply route to support President Barack Obama's military surge against Taliban insu ... more Clinton to Middle East, Europe March 1 to 7 
Washington (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to take her first trip as the United States' top diplomat to the Middle East and Europe from March 1 to 7, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Thursday. Clinton will travel to Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Belgium, Switzerland and Turkey to attend a donor's conference, meet with NATO foreign ministers and Russian Foreign Minister Se ... more Russia proposes NATO talks on Georgia to ease ties 
Brussels (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Russia is ready to discuss its war in Georgia to help unblock ties with NATO but alliance nations are divided over resuming formal talks and no de-freeze is likely before April, diplomats said Thursday. The war in early August brought NATO-Russia tensions to a head, especially Moscow's decision to recognise the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and ... more Yemen to buy more Russian fighters: president 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Yemen seeks to buy more Russian fighter jets among other military hardware, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in an interview published Thursday by the Vremya Novostei daily. "We had had the (MiG-29) fighter airplanes for a long time, they are good fighters. Suffice to say that we intend to buy more of them, I will not say how much, but it will be MiG-29 and maybe MiG-35," Saleh told ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Russia's military prosecutor on Wednesday announced a probe into high-level naval officers and businessmen suspected of supplying anti-submarine rockets to China illegally, Interfax reported. The prosecutor, Sergei Fridinsky, said the suspects had transferred the 30 rockets as well as 200 aviation bombs to the ex-Soviet state of Tajikistan with the intention of selling them on to China for ... more Iran says nuclear plant could start in months 
Bushehr, Iran (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Iran began testing its first nuclear power plant on Wednesday in the face of deep international concern over its atomic drive and said the long-delayed project could go on line within months. Officials from Iran and Russia, which has been involving in building the power station for the past 14 years, watched over the start of the pre-commissioning in the Gulf port of Bushehr. "As for a t ... more Threat of oil spill menaces Russian Pacific island 
Korsakov, Russia (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Standing on the icy shoreline, Dmitry Lisitsyn recalled the day when over 100 dying birds washed up on this beach, coated in a thick layer of oil and helplessly flapping their wings. "We believe there were several thousand birds killed in all," said Lisitsyn, an environmental activist on Russia's Sakhalin Island, located in the Pacific Ocean just a few dozen kilometres (miles) north of Japan ... more South Korea Warns North Satellite Launch Would Breach UN Order 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 25, 2009The 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 ... more |
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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 NATO considers permanent force for eastern Europe 
Krakow, Poland (AFP) Feb 20, 2009NATO is examining whether to set up a permanent military force in eastern Europe to encourage regional allies to send combat troops to Afghanistan, the alliance's top civilian official said Friday. The idea, proposed by Britain to ease concerns in eastern Europe about Russian belligerence since its war with Georgia, would see 3,000 troops drawn from the NATO Response Force, a contingent for ... more Satellite Collision Triggers Calls For Space Traffic Regulations 
Beijing, China (XNA) Feb 19, 2009The U.S.-Russian satellite collision not only caused a disturbance to the outer space, but also helped to arouse concern among space explorers about such accidents. The whole world has been reflecting on the inefficiency of existing space surveillance systems and has been calling for the introduction of new "space traffic regulations." ... more
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