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China To Set Up Independent Satellite Navigation SystemBeijing (XNA) May 24, 2010 China is developing an independent satellie navigation system called Beidou. It's the third country after the US and Russia to have such a system developed on its own. At the first China Satellite Navigation Annual Academic Conference in Beijing, the chief designer says the system will cover the whole world by 2020 and he hopes Beidou will become the most competitive navigation system on earth. According to Sun Jiadong, the system is being completed in 3 stages. The first stage consist ... read more |
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Donostia-San Sebasti�n, Spain (SPX) May 18, 2010The 2010 Space Propulsion Congress brought together some 500 international experts in aerospace propulsion systems in the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebasti�n. The latest technological advances were made known, including those that will make reaching Mars possible in the future as well as other planets such as Mercury. Space Propulsion, the main international forum in the aerospace propul ... more  
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 |
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Russia's Space Defenses In ShamblesMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2010 A group of retired Russian generals warned on Thursday that the country's space defenses are obsolete and have a limited capability to counter possible threats from space. "Frankly, our space defense capabilities are limited and insufficient to ensure our national security," former Air Force commander Anatoly Kornukov told a roundtable on the future of Russia's air and space defenses in Moscow. He said Russia is lagging behind the United States in the development of space-based weapons and s ... read more |
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