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'Vigilant Eagle' Tests NORAD, Russian ResponseAnchorage, Alaska (SPX) Aug 13, 2010 An automated female voice commands over onboard speakers, "Traffic! Traffic! Descend! Descend!" as a North American Aerospace Defense Command F-22 Raptor approaches the right wing of the track of interest. Five minutes after take-off from Anchorage en route to the Far East, Fencing 1220, a Gulfstream 4 simulating a Boeing 757 commercial jetliner, squawked an emergency to ground controllers, spurring action from members of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Defense Department and kicking o ... read more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Jul 28, 2010Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko concluded a six-hour, 42-minute spacewalk Tuesday at 6:53 a.m. EDT. The cosmonauts began their spacewalk when they opened the hatches of the Pirs docking compartment at 12:11 a.m. This was the 147th spacewalk overall in support of International Space Station assembly and maintenance. The cosmonauts wore their Russian Orlan spacesuits ... more  
Mountain View CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2010The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), an independent coalition designed to promote outreach and foster research relating to the construction of an Elevator to Space, has announced that Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov and American engineer Jerome Pearson, pioneers of the modern Space Elevator concept, will appear at the 2010 Space Elevator Conference. The Conference, which wi ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 28, 2010Russia will upgrade and put on active duty three mothballed Soviet-era nuclear-powered missile cruisers by 2020, a high-ranking Navy official told RIA Novosti. Russia built four Kirov class nuclear-powered cruisers in 1974-1998. One of them, the Pyotr Veliky, is in active service as the flagship of the Northern Fleet. "Cruisers Admiral Nakhimov, Admiral Lazarev and Admiral Ushakov wi ... more |
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Russian Aerospace Company To Send Mission To MercuryFarnborough, UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 Russian NPO Lavochkin intends to send an interplanetary research mission to Mercury in 4-5 years, Lavochkin's deputy general designer said at the Farnborough International Airshow 2010. "[The mission will consist of] a flight to Mercury and a landing on its surface," Maxim Martynov said. "We assume that the device will be a modified Phobos-Grunt satellite." He added that the NPO is currently engaged in a pre-design mission. Martynov also said that similar missions are planned for ... read more |
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