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 LOndon, UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2009 
The largest space telescope ever constructed in Britain is to be taken out of storage at the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre to go on display at the Science Museum in London. The JET-X (Joint European X-Ray Telescope) instrument is a 3.5 m focal length X-ray telescope built by a consortium of groups from Italy and Russia and scientific groups from the UK; from the ... read more 
Paris, France (RIA Novosti) Jun 16, 2009European, American and Japanese partners of Russia on the International Space Station may want the orbiter to continue its mission until at least 2025, the head of Russia's Space Agency said Monday. "Partners from the European Space Agency have, for example, a strong desire to extend the station's flight terms, and they can be understood: the Columbus scientific lab is totally new... its ... more
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Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 17, 2009It may not be the Yeti, but in a remote region of the Russian mountains a previously unknown and entirely unique form of plant root has been discovered. Lead Scientist Professor Hans Cornelissen and his Russian-Dutch team describe this finding in Ecology Letters. The root belongs to the small alpine plant Corydalis conorhiza and unlike normal roots, which grow into soil, they extend upward ... more  
Paris, France (RIA Novosti) Jun 16, 2009Russia's Information Satellite Systems (ISS) will sign a memorandum of cooperation on Monday on producing satellites with France-based Thales Alenia Space (TAS) at the Paris Air Show, a Russian official said. The head of the Russian delegation, Alexander Fomin, first deputy director of the Federal Service on Military-Technical Cooperation, said the memorandum will deal with a project to ... more  
Amherst MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2009A team of scientists from the United States, Germany, Russia and Austria returned recently from a six-month sediment drilling expedition at a frozen lake in Siberia, where they retrieved cores going back further than ever before collected in the Arctic-information they call "of absolutely unprecedented significance." Data will help scientists to understand the region's geologic climate ... more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 11, 2009Russian International Space Station commander Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Barratt have installed a docking cone in Zvezda module's depressurized docking bay, Russia's Mission Control said on Wednesday. The astronauts spent around 40 minutes removing a flat cover from the docking bay on Russia's Zvezda module and replacing it with a docking cone for the MIM-2 small research ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 29, 2009 Space mission 20, dubbed "increment", which will be known as expedition 21 after the Soyuz TMA-15 docks with the ISS, has particular historical significance for space exploration. It is the first time a Canadian astronaut has flown to the International Space Station on board a Russian space capsule, rather than in the shuttle. It is also the first time the Soyuz space craft's crew is ... more  
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) May 29, 2009India has dropped Russia from a $1-bln tender to supply six aerial tankers for the Indian Air Force due to poor after-sales maintenance services, the Hindustan Times cited the air force chief as saying. The Indian Air Force has been operating a fleet of Russian Il-78 aerial tankers for six years and announced a global tender for an additional six aircraft three years ago. The Russian Il-78 ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) May 28, 2009ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is heading to the International Space Station at the start of his six-month OasISS mission. Together with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, De Winne launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 12:34 CEST (10:34 UT). Their Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (I ... more 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2009Russian arms exports are expected to increase by $700-$800 mln in 2009 despite the global credit crunch, state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday. "Rosoboronexport sells an additional $700-800 million [worth of weaponry] every year. Despite the crisis, 2009 will be no exception," company official Valery Varlamov said. The arms export monopoly sold $6.75 billion worth of ... more |
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