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Japan will launch its first domestic cargo spaceship to the International Space Station ISS on September 10, a Russian space official said on Monday. The spacecraft was built by Japan's space agency JAXA, and will lift off on board the country's new H-2B rocket. It will deliver about 4.5 metric tons of scientific equipment to the orbital station. "The launch of the Japanese H-2B ... read more 
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia (SPX) Sep 08, 2009Proba-2 has reached Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, where it is being prepared for launch this November. Among the smallest satellites ever built by ESA, it was transported there aboard an Ilyushin cargo plane. Proba-2 is a mission of ESA's General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) , building on almost eight years of operational experience gained with Proba-1. ... more
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 08, 2009The construction of a new space center in Russia's Far East will start in 2011, a government official said on Monday. Russia currently uses two launch sites for space carrier rockets and ballistic missiles tests: the Baikonur space center in the Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan, which it has leased since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Plesetsk space center in northwest ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 03, 2009With 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 ... 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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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 18, 2009For 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. ... 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  
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 |
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