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Russia Launches Military Satellite From BaikonurMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 29, 2010 Russia launched on Thursday a Proton-M rocket carrying a military satellite on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Defense Ministry said. "A Proton-M heavy carrier rocket with a military satellite on board was successfully launched at 03.18 Moscow time [00.18 GMT] on Thursday from the Baikonur space center," Lt. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, told RIA Novosti. The separation of the satellite from the rocket is expected at 12.19 Moscow time [ ... read more |
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Russia To Orbit 2 Satellites, ISS Freighter From BaikonurMoscow, China (RIA Novosti) Jan 19, 2010 Russia will launch two international satellites as well as a freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) next month from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Federal Space Agency said Monday. A Roscosmos spokesman said Intelsat 16, CryoSat 2, and Progress M04M would be launched with three different carrier rockets. The Progress M04M is due for liftoff with a Soyuz-U vehicle on February 3 at 6:45 a.m. Moscow time and is to dock with the ISS on February 5 at 7:32 a.m. ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 18, 2010The U.S. media suspects China and India of developing anti-satellite weapons. An article to this effect has been published the New Scientist magazine. Until recently, only the Soviet Union, its legal successor Russia and the United States were capable of developing anti-satellite weapons. U.S. analysts now think that China and India are acquiring similar capabilities. To what extent are such fears justified? ... more  
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jan 15, 2010Two 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 ... more 
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 |
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Roscosmos Reserves Site For Vostochny SpaceportMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 13, 2010 The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has signed a decree to reserve, for seven years, a 103,546-ha site in the Amur Province for the construction of the Vostochny spaceport. T he document stipulates that any activity associated with the sale of the land, ownership or the construction of buildings which is not related to the spaceport on the reserved site is prohibited without the consent of Roscosmos. The Vostochny spaceport project will be implemented in stages, with const ... read more |
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