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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 09, 2009 
On May 18, 2009 the first floating nuclear power plant was set up in St. Petersburg (Russia). The contract, signed by OPK and "Concern Energoatom" PLC on February 27, 2009, anticipated the construction, launching, rebuilding and testing of the power plant. The exploitation of the head floating power-generating unit, with KLT-40C type reactor, is the final step of this project. According to ... read more 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 07, 2009A Rokot carrier rocket has orbited three Russian military satellites, a spokesman for Russia's Space Forces said. The Rokot, carrying three Cosmos-series satellites, was launched by Russia's Space Forces from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia early on Monday, Lt. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said. Russia reportedly operates a network of about 60-70 military reconnaissance ... more
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Paris, France (ESA) Jul 07, 2009Proba-2, one of the smallest satellites ESA has ever built for space, is about to leave its Belgian homeland. Its development and testing complete, the satellite is being packed up for the first leg of its journey to orbit - shipment to the distant Plesetsk launch site in northern Russia. Proba-2 is second in ESA's Project for OnBoard Autonomy series, building on nearly eight years of ... more  
New Delhi, India (PTI) Jul 03, 2009ISRO has had a long standing and successful co-operation with the erstwhile USSR in Space with the active participation of USSR in setting up the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in early Sixties, Joint meteorological studies using more than 1000 meteorological sounding rockets launched from Thumba supplied ... more  
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jul 02, 2009ILS International Launch Services (ILS) successfully carried the SIRIUS FM-5 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton. This was the third commercial mission of the year for ILS and the fifth successful Proton launch of 2009. ILS has launched the entire SIRIUS three-satellite constellation beginning with the first launch in 2000. The ILS Proton Breeze M launched from Pad 39 at the cosmodrome ... more 
Luxembourg (SPX) Jun 30, 2009SES ASTRA has announced that the Lithuanian satellite service provider SatGate resumes its transmissions from SES ASTRA's orbital position at 31.5 degrees East. SatGate uses four transponders to provide broadband and internet connectivity to Internet Service Providers (ISP), households and end customers in Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, its neighbouring countries and the Middle East. ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jun 23, 2009Following an agreement between ESA, Krunichev Space Centre and Eurockot Launch Services, ESA's next Earth Explorer mission SMOS and a secondary payload, the technology demonstrator Proba-2 satellite, will now launch on 2 November 2009. The new November launch date follows a rescheduling of the previously announced date of 9 September. Both the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 22, 2009On 14 July, a crew of six will leave their Mars mission simulator and see the Sun once again. The crew, which includes a French pilot and a German engineer selected by the European Space Agency, will have completed 105 days of confinement and numerous scientific experiment runs inside the isolation facility at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow. Their simulated ... more  
LOndon, UK (SPX) Jun 18, 2009The 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 ... 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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