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 Paris, France (ESA) Sep 03, 2009 
With launch just two months away, members of the SMOS team are currently in Russia inspecting the facilities where the launch campaign will soon get underway to prepare the ESA's water mission for liftoff on 2 November. Members of the team are busy checking the facilities at both Arkhangelsk, where the satellite and support equipment will arrive in Russia by plane, and the integration faci ... read more 
New Delhi, India (XNA) Sep 02, 2009Less 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 ... more
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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  
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 |
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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  
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 |
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