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Russia To Test Launch Angara Carrier Rocket In 2011 Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 19, 2009 
Russia's new Angara carrier rocket will start test flights in 2011, the rocket's developer said on Wednesday. The Angara, designed to place heavy payloads into orbit, is currently under development at the Khrunichev State Space Science and Production Center. "The work is going according to schedule. A light-class Angara will be launched in early 2011 and a heavy class rocket will be ... read more
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ESA To Orbit Three Satellites With Russian Rockets In 2009
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 19, 2009The European Space Agency (ESA) has plans to orbit three research satellites in 2009 using Russian carrier rockets, ESA Director Jean Jacques Dordain said on Wednesday. A Russian Rockot launch vehicle successfully put into orbit on Tuesday the European GOCE satellite, which will measure and map the Earth's gravitational field. He said the next Earth Explorer, named SMOS, could also ... more New Exhibition On Navigation In Russia 
Moscow (SPX) Mar 19, 2009Concurrently with the exhibition "Communication-Expocom-2009," the main event in the field of navigation in Russia is to take place at the CEC Expocentre - an international congress-exhibition project "Navigation systems, technologies and services." The major goal of the project is informing the wide audience both in Russia and abroad of innovation technologies in the field of satellite na ... more Russia, China to hold joint military exercises: report 
Moscow (AFP) March 18, 2009Russia and China will conduct joint military exercises this summer on Chinese territory, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a source in the Russian defence ministry. "Consultations between the two countries' defence ministries will begin shortly, in which the forces and resources involved in the exercises are to be determined, as well as the thematic focus of the joint manoe ... more Analysis: Russia to modernize army, nukes 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would modernize its armed forces and nuclear weapons to counter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's eastward expansion, but experts say the West does not have to worry about a new crisis with Moscow. The Russian armed forces, Medvedev Tuesday told top Russian generals, will be expanded starting in 2011. The president cited the "serious potentia ... more Russian Chinese Asymmetric Anti-aircraft Missile Capabilities: F-22 Vital Part Four 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 The balance in international military power may be shifting again. In the last two years, Russia, India and China have all announced or clarified major defense programs that include everything from the development of advanced fighters to upgrading aircraft carriers. It turns out that adversaries took careful note of the way the United States and its allies used air dominance in all its ... more |
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Havana (AFP) March 18, 2009Cuba is negotiating oil exploration and production deals with Russia, China and Angola, with Moscow shaping up as the partner that could make the communist island energy self-sufficient, officials said Wednesday. The development is unfolding right under the nose of the United States, home to oil giants that cannot follow suit due to the US economic embargo on Cuba. "The Cuban oil industr ... 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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Paris, France (ESA) Mar 17, 2009This afternoon, ESA's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite was due to be launched by a Russian Rockot vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. However, the launch operations were stopped a few seconds before scheduled liftoff as the doors of the launch service tower did not open. Due to this anomaly, the tower was held in position and d ... more Venezuela offers use of air base to Russia: Chavez 
Caracas (AFP) March 15, 2009Venezuela has offered Russia unlimited use of an air base off its Caribbean coast, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday - the latest step to boost military ties between the two countries. "I told (Russian) President (Dmitry) Medvedev that any time Russia's strategic aircraft need to land in Venezuela to meet their strategic aims, Venezuela will be at their service," Chavez said. Chavez's ... more Pentagon mocks Russian military moves in Latin America 
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
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