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Russia's last cargo spaceship with an analogue control system plunged on Sunday into a "spaceship cemetery" in the southern Pacific, the Russian Mission Control said. "Fragments of the Progress M-67 space freighter with waste material from the International Space Station (ISS) drowned at about 14.20 Moscow time [10.20 GMT]...several thousand kilometers to the east of New Zealand," space of ... read more
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 28, 2009Russia's last space freighter with an analogue control system will reenter the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday before plunging into a "spaceship cemetery" in the southern Pacific, the Russian Mission Control said. The Progress M-67 cargo spaceship, which arrived at the International Space Station on July 29, bringing 2.5 tons of supplies, including fuel, water and various equipment ... more
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 24, 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 Earth ... 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  
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 |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 15, 2009Russia will launch a new meteorological satellite on Tuesday, starting the process of restoring the country's weather forecasting capabilities, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday. At present, Russia does not have any weather satellites in orbit and uses meteorological data from U.S. and European weather agencies. The new-generation Meteor-M weather satellite and five ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2009An industry survey has revealed that over 5,000 direct jobs, including 1,700 jobs in Florida, would be created over the next five years if the $2.5 billion Commercial Crew Program proposed by the White House Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee (also known as the Augustine Committee) moves forward. A Commercial Crew program would support full utilization of the Space Station ... more  
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 |
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