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LRO Team Helps Track Laser Signals To Russian Rover MirrorGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 27, 2010 Using information provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) instrument teams, researchers at the University of California San Diego have successfully pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by bouncing laser signals from Earth to the Russian Lunokhod 1 retroreflector. The initial imaging of the two Russian rovers, Lunokhod 1 and 2 were made earlier this year by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team, led by Mark Robinson from Arizon ... read more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2010Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday confirmed plans to launch a Soyuz carrier rocket from the Kourou space center in French Guiana later this year. The launches have repeatedly been postponed, with the latest deadline set for April 2010. "This year, I hope, a milestone rocket and space industry event will take place: a modernized Soyuz carrier rocket will blast off ... more  
Bangalore (PTI) Apr 12, 2010Official from the Indian Space Research Organisation say there was no Russian involvement in the design and production of cryogenic engine that is developed by New Delhi indigenously and declared that it's a befitting reply to the technology denial regimes. India is set to test the home-grown cryogenic stage and technology - developed after 18 years of research - in its rocket, GSLV, on Ap ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 13, 2010The Soviet Union used U.S. photos of the Moon obtained by the secret service to plan its own lunar mission, a Russian space scientist told RIA Novosti on Monday. The race between the two superpowers to reach the surface of the Moon first was in full swing when Alexander Bazilevsky began work at the Lunar geology department of the Soviet space studies institute in Moscow. "We had to s ... more |
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Kazakhstan Seeks Equal Share In Commercial Space ProjectsAstana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Apr 12, 2010 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 resolved as soon as possible to prevent the country being pushed from lucrative space launch markets by foreign comp ... read more |
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