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Russia Set To Launch Manned Spacecraft In 2017Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 27, 2010 Russia intends to keep up with the U.S. in the space race and launch a new manned spacecraft by 2017, a senior Russian space official said on Tuesday. "We plan to enter the market in 2015 with an unmanned spacecraft and are likely to launch it from the new Vostochny space center. In 2017, a piloted spacecraft should also be developed," Vitaly Lopota, the head of Russia's Energia space corporation, said. He also described the modern space market as "tough and pragmatic," and said the United S ... read more |
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Russian Cosmonauts Take SpacewalkMoscow, 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 the Zvezda service module, as well as install antennas, valves and railings on the Poisk, said Valer ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jan 14, 2010The Russian modules on the International Space Station will realize uninterrupted communications with the ground by 2013, a space industry insider said Wednesday. Russia plans to launch two tracking and data relay satellites - "Luch-5A" and "Luch-5B" - in 2011, said the unnamed expert, adding that a third satellite, "Luch-4," would be launched in 2013. After the three satellites ente ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 13, 2010India would launch its first manned space flights by sending two astronauts into orbit in a Russian spaceship in 2013, according to reports. For this, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is to finance the acquisition of a Soyuz spaceship and train its astronauts by a Russian commander. The Russian cosmonaut would lead the two-member crew on an independent space flight lasti ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 13, 2010One of three newly orbited satellites in Russia's Glonass space satellite navigation grouping has entered service, the federal space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to determine their posit ... more |
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Rohrabacher Suggests Partnership With Russia On Asteroid Interception ProjectWashington DC (SPX) Jan 08, 2010 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 travel beneath our communications satellites. However, the asteroid is reported to return in 2036 w ... read more |
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