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Space station crew set for pioneering launch Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 25, 2009 
The American and Russian pair set to take over the International Space Station (ISS) this week said Wednesday they felt privileged to be part of the doubling of its permanent crew. Speaking ahead of Thursday's launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Michael Barratt and Gennady Padalka, said their mission marked a new phase in the history of the ISS as the permanent crew is to be enlarged from ... read more
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New Station Crew Set to Launch Thursday
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Mar 26, 2009Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael R. Barratt of the 19th International Space Station crew are scheduled to launch in their Soyuz TMA-14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:49 a.m. EDT Thursday to begin a six-month stay in space. With Padalka, a colonel in the Russian Air Force, and Barratt is second-time spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi, flying under ... more Why The F-22 Is Vital Part 8 And 9 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 The return of Russia as a world power comes after a brief, economically driven absence in the late 1990s. Russia has been through periods of inward retrenchment before. However, with control over massive oil and gas reserves, Russia has re-emerged as a powerhouse. Now that nation is causing friction around its borders on issues from energy supplies to missile defense. New member states of the ... more Obama defends right to NATO expansion 
Washington (AFP) March 25, 2009US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he wanted to "reset" US relations with Russia but argued NATO should still be open to countries which aspire to join the alliance. "My administration is seeking a reset of the relationship with Russia," Obama said after an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. But Obama said reinvigorated ties with Moscow must ... 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 24, 2009US relations with Russia were entering a period of "uncertainty" as Moscow appeared determined to sow discord within Europe and undermine US influence, NATO's top commander warned on Tuesday. "The relationship with Russia is likely to be more difficult to manage in coming years than any time since the end of the Cold War," General John Craddock told a congressional hearing in written testimo ... more EU's Baltic states still 'islands' in power market 
Vilnius (AFP) March 24, 2009Five years since they joined the European Union, the bloc's Baltic states are still barely plugged into its electricity network and remain hooked to the grid of their Soviet-era master Moscow. Limited moves to resolve the situation mean the role of Russian power is set to strengthen from the end of this year, when a key but aging nuclear power plant in Lithuania closes down under a deal with ... more Why The F-22 Is Vital Part Six 
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2009 For some nations that are adversaries of the United States, the solution to the challenge of neutralizing U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems is near at hand. Positioning of advanced surface-to-air missiles along border regions can put all current unmanned ISR platforms at risk of being unable to survey crisis areas. Russia's actions in the former Soviet republic ... more Analysis: EU aims to boost energy security 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 20, 2009 In the wake of the worst energy crisis it battled in more than three decades, the European Union is trying to find ways to improve its energy security -- and new pipelines and LNG are the key words. The recent gas row between Russia and Ukraine, which halted gas supplies to Europe during a bitter cold spell in January, is the "worst energy crisis Europe has experienced since the oil ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) March 19, 2009Russia sees "every opportunity" to reach agreement with the United States on missile defence issues, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday, referring to controversial US plans. "Potentially we have every opportunity to agree on anti-missile defence," Andrei Nesterenko told journalists at a briefing. The issue of missile defence created severe strains between Moscow and Washington ... more Electronic Nose Sniffs Hazards 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 20, 2009An advanced sensor technique and data processing used to monitor air conditioning inside space stations is now being used in an innovative fire protection system for Stockholm's metro system. This technique, called the 'electronic nose', was developed for ESA in the 1990s as a contribution to the Russian MIR programme to ensure constant monitoring of the air inside the MIR space station. ... more Why The F-22 Remains Vital Part Five 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Mar 19, 2009 What type of military forces will be most in demand to fight the wars of the 21st century? Telling signs are already evident. - In 2007 Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear bombers and Ilyushin Il-78 tankers resumed patrols in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and near the Arctic Circle after a 15-year absence. - China's active space program has tested satellite destruction and manned orb ... more EEurope stirring up conflict: Russian NATO ambassador 
Berlin (AFP) March 19, 2009Russia's ambassador to NATO accused "little countries" in Eastern Europe of provoking tensions between Moscow and the military alliance, in comments published in Germany on Thursday. "How much longer are we going to tolerate small countries being able to stir things up between us that leads to conflict?" Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily. ... more
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