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Russia Prepares To Launch US Telecoms SatelliteMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 10, 2010 A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a U.S. telecommunications satellite has been delivered to a launch pad at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for the February 12 launch. The carrier rocket will put into orbit the Intelsat-16 satellite, which was developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation for the Intelsat Ltd., a leading provider of satellite services worldwide. The Intelsat-16 satellite is equipped with 24 transponders and will provide telecommunications services to cust ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 27, 2010Russia 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 corp ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 25, 2010Russian specialists have completed the operation to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by about 5 km (3 miles), Mission Control said on Sunday. "The space maneuver was carried out in the nominal mode and took about 150 seconds," Mission Control said. Corrections to the space station's orbit are conducted periodically before launches of Russian cargo ships and U. ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2010Russian cosmonauts receive up to $150,000 for a mission on board the International Space Station (ISS), a senior space official said Thursday. "For six months of work on the ISS, a Russian cosmonaut gets an equivalent of $130,000-150,000 in Russian currency," Vladimir Solovyev said, head of the Russian segment of the ISS. Solovyev admitted that the cosmonauts' work in orbit is diffic ... 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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