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![]() Moscow (XNA) Apr 23, 2010 A Russian cargo spaceship undocked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday and started a five-day autonomous flight, said the Mission Control Center outside Moscow. The Russian space freighter Progress M-03M loaded with refuse collected aboard the ISS undocked with the Pirs docking module at around 08:29 p.m. Moscow time (1629 GMT), said Valery Lyndin, spokesman for the Mission Control Center. The whole process took approximately three minutes, he added. During the next ... read more |
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International Team Discovers Element 117![]() An international team of scientists from Russia and the United States, including two Department of Energy national laboratories and two universities, has discovered the newest superheavy element, element 117. The team included scientists from the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia), the Research Institute for Advanced Reactors (Dimitrovgrad), Lawrence Livermore National Lab ... more Kazakhstan Finally Ratifies Baikonur Rental Deal With Russia ![]() The upper chamber of the Kazakh parliament, the Senate, ratified on Friday a 2004 agreement to extend Russia's use of the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. The Russian-Kazakh agreement, which was signed in Astana on January 9, 2004, extends Russia's use of facilities at the space center until 2050. The ratification comes after threats from Russia to ... more Kazakhstan Seeks Equal Share In Commercial Space Projects ![]() Kazakhstan intends to acquire 33% stakes in two Russian-Ukrainian joint ventures using the Baikonur space center for launches of Dnepr and Zenit carrier rockets, the country's top space official said Friday. The head of Kazakh space agency Kazcosmos, Talgat Musabayev, told a session of parliament that the issue of Kazakhstan's equal participation in commercial space projects must be resolv ... more |
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![]() Bangalore, India (PTI) Apr 06, 2010 Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief K. Rashakrishnan on Friday denied the reports that India has made offer to purchase Russian Soyuz-TMA spacecraft. "No, that's all what the newspapers write," Radhakrishnan said. India is in search of a spacecraft to undertake the country's maiden human space flight scheduled for 2015-16. Radhakrishnan's reaction came just a day after a section of Russian media reported about the deal. "We have a human space flight programme and ISRO is go ... read more |
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