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Russia Eyes Chinese Spaceships As Backup For SoyuzMoscow, Russia (XNA) Jul 12, 2010 Chinese spaceships meet all safety requirements and could fly to the International Space Station, Russian space officials said Thursday. "I think Chinese spaceships would play an important role as a backup for the Russian vessels Soyuz and Progress in case of some unforeseen situations," Anatoli Perminov head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos,told RIA Novosti news agency. After U.S. space shuttles cease their missions in 2011, Russia will remain the only country capable of delivering cre ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jun 28, 2010Russia will return to its program of building the space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday. New carrier rockets will have a workload over 24 tons, director of Moscow's Central Machine-building Institute, Gennady Raikunov, said during the Strong Russia business conference. According to Raikunov, the tests of the rocket will ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2010Russia considers purchasing an unfinished missile cruiser from Ukraine, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said on Saturday. Construction of the Slava class Admiral Lobov cruiser was launched in 1984 at the Nikolayev shipyard in Ukraine but stalled in the late 1980s due to a sharp reduction in military expenditure. The cruiser was renamed the Ukraina in 1992. A Ru ... more 
Moscow (RIA NOVOSTI) Jun 29, 2010Russia's reviewed plans for naval modernization include the supply of 15 new warships, including frigates, missile boats and submarines, to the Black Sea Fleet by 2020. The decision was recently made public by Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky. Taking into account the high cost and complexity of the modern projects, the new ships will be modernized versions of already tried ... more |
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New Areas Prone To Moderate Earthquakes Identified In Iberian PeninsulaMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 25, 2010 Some areas of the Iberian Peninsula, where earthquakes of moderate magnitude have never yet been recorded, such as certain parts of the Cordillera Cantabrica mountain range, the far west of the Cordilleras Beticas mountains and the north of Valencia, could have the potential to generate such quakes, according to a study produced by Spanish, Russian and Italian scientists and published this month in the journal Rendiconti Lincei. "The methodology we have used confirms the most seismically significa ... read more |
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