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 Seoul (YNA) Aug 05, 2009 
South Korea said Tuesday it may have to again postpone the launch of its first space rocket because further examination of a critical combustion test conducted last week is needed. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said that while Russia successfully completed the "hot fire test" last Thursday, some "technical issues" still have to be clarified, requiring more time. ... read more 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 31, 2009Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress I-67 after a five-day free flight has docked to the International Space Station (ISS). All the dynamic operations leading to rendezvous and docking were performed under supervision of the Technical Management (Technical Manager is the President of RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev, Designer General V.A. Lopota) Flight control specialists and members of ... more
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 30, 2009Russia's Progress M-67 cargo spacecraft successfully docked on Wednesday with the International Space Station (ISS), Russian Mission Control said. A Russian Soyuz-U rocket with the freighter lifted off on Friday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. The Progress took five days instead of the usual two to reach the ISS because of a delay in the arrival of U.S. space shuttle En ... more  
Baikonur Kazakhstan (SPX) Jul 30, 2009SpaceQuest, Ltd. ("SpaceQuest"), a U.S. satellite technology company headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, is pleased to announce the successful launch of two SpaceQuest-manufactured microsatellites, Aprizesat-3 and Aprizesat-4. On July 29, 2009, at 18:46 GMT the two spacecraft were successfully launched into a circular sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit (LEO) aboard a Russian Dnepr launch vehi ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Jul 30, 2009The nascent Russian navigation and telematics market is witnessing a reversal of trends, with global positioning system (GPS)-enabled smartphone technology gaining ground over traditional portable navigation devices (PND). In 2009, the smartphone-based navigation market already exceeded 350,000 units sold in Russia, while the PND market failed to register even half that amount. New analysi ... more |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2009Does a sandwich on Mars taste different? The answer could be no, according to new research that found long-term spaceflight exposure doesn't change later generations of wheat seeds. Molecular biologist Robert Ferl of the University of Florida and colleagues studied wheat seeds descended from plants that flew on the Russian Mir space station. The progenitor plants were in space for 167 days ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 15, 2009From March 31 to July 14, a six-man international crew called an isolation chamber in Moscow their home. The crew, composed of four Russians and two Europeans, simulated a 105-day Mars mission full of experiments and realistic mission scenarios, including emergency situations and 20-minute communications delays. U.S. participation in the mission consisted of three research teams with ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 15, 2009The 105-day space travel simulation experiment 'Mars 500', based in Moscow with German involvement, has just finished. On 14 July 2009, the crew, including Oliver Knickel, a member of the German Army, left the module system at the Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) at the Russian Academy of Sciences. The six people taking part in the experiment will be subjected to a rigorous series ... more |
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