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Worried Russia to monitor NKorea rocket launch Moscow (AFP) March 13, 2009 
Russia's military said on Friday it would deploy warning systems to protect against accidents during neighbouring North Korea's forthcoming rocket launch, as a senior deputy voiced concern. An unnamed source at the General Staff said special attention would be paid to the far east of the country and Russia's eastern islands during next month's satellite launch by neighbouring North Korea. ... read more
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Russia weighs Cuba, Venezuela bases for bombers: report
Moscow (AFP) March 14, 2009Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday. "This is possible in Cuba," General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air force's strategic aviation staff, told the Interfax-AVN military news agency. The comments were the latest sign ... more Russian air force withdraws 90 faulty MiGs: report 
Moscow (AFP) March 13, 2009Ninety of Russia's MiG-29 fighter jets have been rejected by military inspectors during checks after a crash last December, an air force spokesman said on Friday, quoted by Interfax. "So far from the overall fleet of MiG-29s, about 200 planes have been examined, of which 100 have been permitted to fly. About 90 MiG-29s have been withdrawn from flying," said Colonel Vladimir Drik. He adde ... more SSTL Delivers On Russian KANOPUS Missions 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2009Surrey Satellite Technology has delivered to the customer, FSUE NPP VNIIEM, the first two suites of equipment for the KANOPUS-type satellite platforms. The equipment now in Russia has successfully completed two weeks of tests, marking a major milestone for the project and the customer. Work is now underway to integrate the equipment into the first two satellites, under a joint operation wi ... more Iridium Provides Update On Satellite Constellation 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 10, 2009Iridium is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, March 4, 2009, the company completed the replacement of the operational Iridium satellite lost in the collision three weeks ago with a non-operational Russian satellite. The unique architecture of Iridium's fully-meshed network of 66 satellites enabled the continuity of service to Iridium's customers while one of Iridium's in-orbit spares ... more Space Program Still Vital 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 10, 2009In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy told Congress we'd put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, he knew that the journey of discovery would yield more value than simply beating the Russians to the moon. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth," were the w ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2009Iran could produce an atomic weapon in "one or two years," a Russian strategic arms control expert said Thursday, calling a nuclear-armed Tehran a "significant threat." "One can speak of one or two years," Vladimir Dvorkin, a retired general and veteran participant in US-Soviet disarmament talks in the 1970s and 1980s, told reporters when asked how close Iran was to having a nuclear weapon. ... more Radar offer for US missile system still on: Russia 
Baku (AFP) March 12, 2009Russia's offer of a Soviet-era radar station in Azerbaijan as an alternative to US missile defence sites in Eastern Europe remains on the table, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday. "The offer remains on the table. If American and European partners express interest we are ready to return to this question," he said during a visit to the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Moscow p ... more Kazakh Astronaut To Replace Tourist In Russian Spaceship 
Moscow (XNA) Mar 12, 2009A Kazakh astronaut will take the space tourist's seat on the Russian Soyuz spaceship that is slated to dock with the International Space Station next autumn, local media reported Wednesday. The astronaut, taking one of the three seats, will carry out his professional mission during the flight and stay in the ISS, Itar-Tass and Interfax cited Federal Space Agency Director Anatoly Perminov ... more ESA's Gravity Satellite Moves To Launch Pad 
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 12, 2009With liftoff just five days away, ESA's GOCE spacecraft - encased in the protective half-shells of the launcher fairing - has been transported from the cleanroom and installed in the launch tower at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The so-called Upper Composite, which comprises the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Explorer (GOCE) satellite joined to the Breeze-KM Upper Stage ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) March 11, 2009President Dmitry Medvedev Tuesday predicted a "new page" in Russia-US relations under Barack Obama, amid reports Moscow is shelving a missile delivery to Iran that risked irking Washington. "The signals being received from the US president are completely positive," Medvedev said after a meeting with members of a US commission on Russia relations, including Senator Chuck Hagel and former sena ... more US, Russian spacemen take spacewalk: mission control 
Moscow (AFP) March 10, 2009A Russian cosmonaut and a US colleague ventured out of the International Space Station Tuesday on a spacewalk to install an experiment, make repairs and take pictures, a mission official said. Cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and astronaut Mike Fincke completed their tasks one hour ahead of schedule, finishing their spacewalk in four hours and 50 minutes, said Russian mission control spokeswoman Val ... more China Afloat In The Indian Ocean Part Two 
Hong Kong (UPI) Mar 11, 2009 China's Sea Lion radar can search for more than 100 targets at once and track 50 of them at the same time. Its search range for combat aircraft appears to be around 500 to 550 kilometers (300 to 330 miles). The design requirements for both Russian and Japanese phased array radar systems are such that even if 10 percent of the elements are lost, the radar system can continue to function ... more Jordan says four firms bid to build nuclear plant 
Amman (AFP) March 10, 2009Jordan said on Monday that four international firms have proposed to build a nuclear plant in the energy-poor kingdom to help generate power and desalinate water. "The country is currently studying proposals submitted by France's Areva, South Korea's KEPCO, the Atomic Energy of Canada and Russia's Atomstroyexport," Jordan Atomic Energy Commission head Khaled Tukan said. "We are in the fi ... more
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