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Junk threat averted, Discovery shuttle docks with space station Washington (AFP) March 17, 2009 
The shuttle Discovery sped towards a Tuesday rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) after NASA concluded the orbiting laboratory was no longer at risk from a piece of space junk that had put astronauts on high alert. US and Russian experts Monday had raised the prospect of moving the 100-billion-dollar station to dodge a 10-centimeter (4-inch) piece of debris that raised alarm. The two vessels linked up at 2119 GMT as they flew over southern Australia, around six minutes behind the estimated docking time but, barring minor communication issues between the ISS and mission control in Houston, without a hitch. ... read more
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Eurockot Launches Gravity Probe From Plesetsk Spaceport
Moscow (AFP) March 17, 2009A pioneering European satellite designed to map Earth's gravity field was launched Tuesday from the Plesetsk site in northern Russia, space officials said. "The rocket carrying the European satellite was launched as planned," a spokeswoman for the Khrunichev space centre told AFP by telephone. The launch of the sophisticated satellite, which looks like a spyplane, had been scheduled to ... more Russia picking moon rocket design 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 16, 2009 Russian space officials say they will select the winning design this month for the rocket intended to carry cosmonauts to the moon within a decade. Alexander Chulkov, head of the rocket and launch facilities directorate at Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, told the BBC News the winner will be picked by March 25. "We have a bidding procedure, under which we made a request for prop ... more Russia Spends Up On Rearmament, Eyes News Missiles, US Not Worried 
Moscow (AFP) March 17, 2009President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday announced a "large-scale" rearmament and renewal of Russia's nuclear arsenal, accusing NATO of pushing ahead with expansion near Russian borders. Meeting defence chiefs in Moscow, Medvedev said he was determined to implement reforms to streamline Russia's bloated military and stressed Moscow continued to face several security threats needing robust defen ... 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 |
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Washington (AFP) March 16, 2009The US Defense Department on Monday made light of Russia's possible use of air bases in Venezuela or Cuba for its strategic bombers. "That would be quite a long way for those old planes to fly," Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, told AFP. Another defense official said Russia's efforts to promote military ties with Venezuela and Cuba were not cause for serious concern. Top US ... more Russia backs US ops in Afghanistan: minister 
Kabul (AFP) March 16, 2009Russia supports US operations in Afghanistan and is ready to contribute to stabilising the country, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published Monday during his visit to Kabul. Lavrov however criticised "indiscriminate" Western air raids in the war-torn country in comments published in an Afghan government newspaper, a transcript of which was distributed by the foreign min ... more Arctic states gather to try to save polar bear from global warming 
Oslo (AFP) March 15, 2009Towering at the top of the food chain, the polar bear need not worry about predators but nonetheless faces a daunting enemy: climate change, which is jeopardising the very survival of the species. To avoid relegating the majestic animal to the realm of museums, the five countries that ring the Arctic - Canada, Denmark (with Greenland), Norway, Russia and the United States - are set to meet ... more Worried Russia to monitor NKorea rocket launch 
Moscow (AFP) March 13, 2009Russia'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. ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 13, 2009North Korea has informed Russia that it has signed up to an international treaty and convention on space, a Russian Foreign Ministry source said on Thursday. "The Foreign Ministry of Russia, being a depositary state, received on March 5 notification that North Korea has joined the 1966 space treaty," the source said. The source said Pyongyang also told the Russian ministry that UN Se ... more ILS Announces Proton Launch ViaSat-1 Satellite In 2011 
Reston VA (SPX) Mar 13, 2009International Launch Services has announced a contract for the launch of the ViaSat-1 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems Loral and is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2011 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ViaSat-1 is a high capacity Ka-band spot beam satellite, which is expected to be the highest capacity of all current and p ... more ISS Partners Rule Out Turning Life On Orbiter Into Reality Show 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 13, 2009Roscosmos and NASA have decided not to pursue a U.S.-initiated idea to make life on the International Space Station (ISS) a reality show, the Russian Space Agency announced on Thursday. Views of Earth from the space station will be streamed round-the-clock on the NASA web site using cameras mounted on the exterior of the orbiter, but the activities of crewmembers monitored on interior came ... more Iran 'one or two years' from nuclear weapon: Russian expert 
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
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