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 New Delhi, India (XNA) Sep 02, 2009 
Less than a year after its launch, India's first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayan I, knocked off the country's endeavor to assert its power in space, after it lost radio contact with the mission control following a technical glitch believed to have been caused by a burst of sun spot activity. Though the state-run Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) hailed the moon mission a "great ... read more 
St. John's, Canada (SPX) Sept 01, 2009The world's last remaining "pristine" forest - the boreal forest across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries - is under increasing threat, a team of international researchers has found. The researchers from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, University of Adelaide in Australia and the National University of Singapore have called for the urgent ... more
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2009The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has invited Russia to carry out a joint manned flight to Mars, the head of NASA's Moscow office said on Tuesday. Russia is currently planning to send its own expedition to Mars some time in the future. Marc Bowman told an international aviation and space conference in Moscow that the Mars mission should take advantage of the achieveme ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 28, 2009Russia and the U.S. have yet to decide on where to place a joint control point to observe rocket launches by foreign countries, Russia's chief of staff said on Wednesday. During his visit to Moscow in July, U.S. President Barack Obama discussed with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issues relating to the development of anti-rocket systems, and began talks on creating a joint "Center for I ... more  
Astana, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 24, 2009Kazakhstan's first satellite, KazSat-1, has been put into orbit for a 'space burial,' the country's mission control reported on Friday. The $100 million communications satellite, built for Kazakhstan by Russia's Khrunichev Space Center, was put into orbit approximately 36,000 km above the Earth in June 2006. Featuring eight Ku-band transponders for landline communications and four ... more |
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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  
Trubbach, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 18, 2009Oerlikon Solar has announced that Nano Solar Technology, a newly formed Russian high-tech firm, has ordered a 120 MW end-to-end Micromorph line for production of thin film solar modules. NST is a Joint Venture between Renova Group and the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (Rusnano). With the envisaged production capacity of one million solar modules annually, this is the largest ... more 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 17, 2009India has completed the design of Chandrayaan-2, its next mission to the moon - this time in collaboration with Russia - that would have a lander and rover which can collect samples of the lunar soil and analyse them and send back the data. "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here," Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation ... more |
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