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Atlantis Bringing A New Dawn For ISS ScienceWashington DC (SPX) May 20, 2010 NASA's space shuttle Atlantis is delivering science experiments and a new Russian laboratory to the International Space Station, continuing the transition from station assembly to continuous scientific research through the end of the decade. The Russian-built Mini Research Module-1, also known as Rassvet (dawn in Russian), will host a variety of biotechnology, biological science, fluid physics and educational research experiments. Rassvet was attached Tuesday morning to the bottom port of the stat ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 18, 2010A Russian expert has said the recent nuclear fuel swap agreement between Iran, Brazil and Turkey is a diplomatic maneuver, aimed at causing rifts in the UN Security Council. The Iranian, Brazilian, and Turkish foreign ministers signed an agreement on Monday on the exchange of low-enriched uranium to fuel Tehran's scientific research reactor. Iran, which has been under international p ... more  
Kiev, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 18, 2010Russia has agreed to help Ukraine finish construction on a missile cruiser, which has been stalled for almost 15 years, the Ukrainian president said on Monday. Construction of the Slava class Admiral Lobov cruiser was launched in 1984 at the Nikolayev shipyard in Ukraine but stalled during its final stage in the late 1980s due to a sharp reduction in military expenditure. The cruiser was r ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 17, 2010Russia's air and space forces are preparing for future threats from space with a "fundamentally new weapon," a senior officer said Saturday on Ekho Moskvy radio. "We are developing a fundamentally new weapon that can destroy potential targets in space," Col. Eduard Sigalov of Russia's air and space defense forces said. The brigade commander said the 5th Brigade of the air and space d ... more |
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ESA Giving A Spare Arm To Space StationParis, France (ESA) May 13, 2010 Space Shuttle Atlantis, ready for liftoff on Friday, will deliver important hardware from Europe to the International Space Station: spare portions of the European Robotic Arm and the first Russian payloads to use the arm. The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is the second 'intelligent' robot arm for the International Space Station (ISS). The first, used extensively for ISS assembly for almost 10 years, is Canadarm-2 - an iconic part of the ISS photos. The second arm, for launch in 2012, will be based ... read more |
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