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Russia To Start Flight-Testing New Cargo Spacecraft In 2016-17 Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2009 
Flight tests of Russia's new cargo spacecraft will start in 2016-17, the general designer of the RSC Energia rocket manufacturer said on Monday. "We will make the new cargo ship more economical, less expensive than those used today," Vitaly Lopota said. He said the cargo spacecraft would be part of a new transport system also including a new manned spaceship and a new launch vehicle. ... read more
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Kazakhstan Indefinitely Postpones Space Program Indefinitely
Almaty (XNA) Apr 16, 2009Kazakhstan has indefinitely postponed a plan of sending its own cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS) for lack of funding, Talgat Musabayev, head of the National Space Agency, said on Thursday. Musabayev told reporters that the sole reason for putting off the plan was lack of funding. He did not disclose the exact amount of fund specified in contract signed with Russia for the ... more BMD Focus: Russia boosts ICBM arsenal 
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 14, 2009Russia's leaders appear interested in a new strategic arms-reduction agreement with the United States. But until one is finally negotiated, they are pushing ahead with an ambitious and expanded program of nuclear-missile development. Three-star Col. Gen Nikolai Solovtsov, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, last week unveiled plans to test at least 14 intercontinental ballist ... more BMD Watch: S-400s For Belarus Part One 
Washington (UPI) April 15, 2009 It comes as no real surprise, but Russia's decision to supply neighboring Belarus with its most advanced anti-missile defense system has profound geopolitical implications and adds significantly to the growing divisions and tensions that are once again tearing Europe in half. A senior Russian air force general announced on April 9 that the Kremlin would be supplying Belarus with the new ... more Russia Defense Watch: UAVs from Israel 
Washington (UPI) April 13, 2009 Russia has closed a deal with Israel's largest aerospace company to buy new state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin, who directs all military procurement programs, confirmed the deal in an announcement Friday, RIA Novosti reported. Previously, the Moscow daily business newspaper Kommersant had published what it said were details of th ... more Russians quarantined after Chinese woman dies on train 
Moscow (AFP) April 15, 2009Russian authorities on Wednesday evacuated 53 passengers to quarantine and sealed off a train after a Chinese woman died of what could be a mystery infectious disease, officials said. "At the Zuyevka station in the Kirov region, the dead woman was urgently taken off the train. All the travellers, a group of migrants who were in her proximity, were also evacuated," the regional government sai ... more |
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Paris (AFP) April 15, 2009Russia must press on with a programme to build 26 new nuclear power stations despite the severe economic crisis affecting the country, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. "We must build 26 power stations," Putin told a government meeting on developing Russia's nuclear energy potential, Interfax news agency reported. "Between now and 2030, the share of nuclear power ... more Happy US-Russian crew deny 'divorce in space' 
Moscow (AFP) April 10, 2009A Russian and US space crew denied on Friday that new rules forbid them from sharing toilets and food in orbit, hailing their work as the "best partnership" in human history. "We are still working our partnership together, but please don't make a mistake," US astronaut Michael Fincke said at the crew's first news conference since returning from the International Space Station. ... more Two-time space tourist returns to Earth 
Moscow (AFP) April 8, 2009US millionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi shared a kiss with his wife in the Kazakh steppe after returning safely to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented second tour in orbit. Simonyi, who made his fortune pioneering Microsoft software, bumped back to Earth at 0715 GMT with two professional astronauts in the Russian Soyuz capsule, a spokesman for the mission control centre told AFP. ... more Major Powers Agree To New NKorea Sanctions 
United Nations (AFP) April 12, 2009Six major powers have agreed a draft statement calling for new sanctions against North Korea over its long-range rocket launch that is expected to be adopted by the full UN Security Council Monday, diplomats said. The non-binding statement was agreed Saturday in closed-door talks among the five permanent members of the council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - plus ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 7, 2009Russia has purchased its first unmanned drones from Israel after its own manufacturers turned out to be ineffective at making the high-tech reconnaissance aircraft, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The deal for an initial purchase of 50 million dollars' (37 million euros') worth of drones was concluded in early April with Israel Aerospace Industries, the Kommersant daily said, citing a Russian ... more Obama's crisis diplomacy hits North Korea hiccup 
Washington (AFP) April 6, 2009President Barack Obama's vaulting rhetoric over North Korea's missile launch ran into familiar resistance at the UN, exposing the cold reality confronting his vows of a new diplomatic dawn. The Stalinist state's weekend launch of a long-range missile came just days after Obama's first talks with the Chinese and Russian presidents in London, posing an early test of the leaders' declared aim f ... more Russia's Growing Arctic Power Play 
Washington, April 6, 2009 Russia has launched a long-term program for the next 12 years to boost its security forces and military presence in the resource-rich Arctic Ocean. The Kremlin has plans to slowly assemble a collection of military and security units in the arctic region, but it has no intention of militarizing the arctic, a spokesman for the Russian Security Council told RIA Novosti March 27. ... more NKorea's Kim 'weeps' as US urges response on rocket 
Seoul (AFP) April 7, 2009North Korea hailed its controversial rocket launch as a famous victory Tuesday but said reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il wept tears of regret that the money could not have been used to help his people. As world powers struggled to agree on a response, with China and Russia both urging restraint, the North's media boasted of the "historic" achievement of putting a satellite into orbit that was no ... more
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