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![]() Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jan 15, 2010 Two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station (ISS) began a spacewalk on Thursday, the Mission Control Center outside Moscow said. The spacewalk, started at 01:05 p.m. Moscow time (1005 GMT) and will last for about six hours, is intended to prepare new docking port. Astronauts Maxim Surayev and Oleg Kotov will run cables for the integration of the Poisk study module into ... read more |
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Atomenergoprom Places Second Bond Series![]() On December 22, 2009, the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation registered Atomenergoprom's 2nd bond series placement report. At the same time public registration of Atomenergoprom's 1st bond series placement report took place on December 15, 2009. The first two series of Atomenergoprom's bonds with a total nominal value of 50 billion RUR were placed on the MICEX Stoc ... more Rohrabacher Suggests Partnership With Russia On Asteroid Interception Project ![]() Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has sent a letter to Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Space Agency, praising Russia's decision to set up a mission to alter the path of an asteroid on a potential collision course with Earth. The impetus for such a project stems from the current trajectory of Asteroid Apophis, scheduled to makes its first pass around Earth in the year 2029, close enough to ... more Cosmic Dark Energy Detected In Galaxies Nearest Earth ![]() An international team of astronomers, including a University of Alabama researcher, have detected effects of "dark energy" within the Local Group of galaxies which contains our own Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers use the term "dark energy" to describe the mysterious field they believe must be present in the mostly empty space of the Universe in order to cause galaxies" accelerated movement away ... more |
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Astronauts Dock At ISS![]() A Russian rocket carrying three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States docked at the International Space Station Wednesday, the Russian flight control centre said. The Soyuz rocket, which blasted off early Monday, docked at 1:48 am Moscow time (2248 GMT Tuesday), an official from the centre said in a report by the Interfax news agency. It left from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the barren Kazakh steppe carrying Soichi Noguchi of Japan, US astronaut Timothy Creamer and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov ... more Russia, Japan To Draft Space Cooperation Agreement ![]() Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will draft an agreement on space cooperation, the Roscosmos chief said Sunday. "Yesterday I met with the Japanese agency's head to draft an inter-agency agreement on a joint space program," Anatoly Perminov told journalists. Perminov said "scientific experiments could be enhanced" with the ... more Customer Takes Control Of 3 New Glonass Satellites ![]() The operator of the Glonass satellite navigation project has taken control of three newly orbited satellites, Russia's leading satellite manufacturer said on Tuesday. The satellites are being operated from the Glonass mission control in the town of Krasnoznamensk, near Moscow. "The first communication sessions have been carried out with all satellites. All systems of the spacecrafts ... more |
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