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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 18, 2009 
For the third time since 2005, the German Aerospace Center is taking part in Russia's national aerospace exhibition, the MAKS Aviation and Space Salon. The exhibition is being held at Zhukovsky, 40 kilometres southeast of Moscow. From 18 to 23 August, DLR will showcase itself as Germany's national research establishment at a joint stand with the German aerospace industry. ... read more 
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Aug 18, 2009India and Russia have finished the design of a second unmanned lunar orbiter to be sent to the Moon in 2011-2012, the Indian Express newspaper said on Monday. The paper quoted Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as saying in Bangalore on Sunday: "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here." ... more
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 18, 2009Russia's troubled Bulava ballistic missile will be developed and put into service with the Navy, the general designer of the Rubin design bureau for marine engineering has said. The missile, which is being developed by the Moscow-based Institute of Thermal Technology (MITT), has suffered six failures in 11 tests. The general director of the institute has resigned over the failures, seen as ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 18, 2009Russia's Air Force may receive over 60 Su fighters worth at least 60 billion rubles ($1.9 bln) under a contract expected to be signed at the MAKS-2009 air show. "Contracts have been drafted to supply 48 Su-35, four Su-30M2 and 12 Su-27M fighters by 2015. They are expected to be signed on the opening day of the air show," a Russian defense industry source said on Monday. The Russian Defense ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 18, 2009Russia and Libya have signed a contract to overhaul at least 145 T-72 Russian-made battle tanks in service with the Libyan Army, a senior government official said on Monday. Moscow and Tripoli have been involved in talks on the modernization of the T-72 tanks since 2006 as part of renewed efforts to revive bilateral military-technical cooperation. "Work has been conducted in the ... more |
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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  
Sarov, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 28, 2009Russia's Security Council will discuss a series of projects on the development of supercomputers to test the effectiveness of the country's nuclear deterrent, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. "Under the global ban on nuclear tests, we can only use computer-assisted simulations to ensure the reliability of Russia's nuclear deterrent," Medvedev said at a meeting of a commission ... more |
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