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The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has decided to delay from 2009 to 2011 the launch of the Phobos Grunt mission to study and return samples from the Martian moon Phobos. The Planetary Society's LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) experiment, designed to test the ability of microorganisms to survive deep space flight, is part of the mission. Due to the relative orbits of Earth ... read more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 23, 2009Russia's launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center has been delayed due to a problem with one of Glonass-M satellites, a source at the launch facility in Kazakhstan said Tuesday. The source said that the decision to delay the launch from Friday until a later date was "made not at the space center but in Moscow, at [Russian Space Agency] Roscosmos." ... more
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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Sep 24, 2009Team Selenokhod, a Russian group of engineers and managers, has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks as outlined in the competition's official ru ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2009The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has decided to delay from 2009 to 2011 the launch of the Phobos Grunt mission to study and return samples from the Martian moon Phobos. The Planetary Society's LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) experiment, designed to test the ability of microorganisms to survive deep space flight, is part of the mission. Due to the relative orbits of ... more
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Sep 23, 2009Team Selenokhod, a Russian group of engineers and managers, has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks as outlined in the competition's official ... more |
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Star City, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2009A special commission has announced the composition of the main and backup crews for the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Russia's Soyuz-FG carrier rocket bearing the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft is due for liftoff from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on September 30. The main crew comprises Russian astronaut Maxim Surayev and Jeff Williams from the U.S. ... more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 09, 2009The main and backup crews for the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS) started on Tuesday their final tests at a space training center near Moscow. Russia's Soyuz-FG carrier rocket bearing the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on September 30. "It is a special day for the crews - they start the final test ... more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 08, 2009Japan 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 ... more |
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