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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Sep 24, 2010 The International Space Station partner agencies met Tuesday, Sept. 21, by videoconference to discuss continuation of space station operations into the next decade and its use as a research laboratory. The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) meeting included senior representatives from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the European Space Agency (ESA), the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The MCB ... read more |
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Russian Mission Control Set To Readjust ISS Orbit![]() The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised on Wednesday by about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), Russia's Mission Control official said. "The aim of this operation is to ensure optimal conditions for the return of [three] astronauts [to Earth] on board the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft on September 24, and for the docking with a new manned Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft, which is sche ... more Satellites Reveal Russian Fires Worst In 14 Years ![]() More wildfires have burned around the Russian capital this year than in the last decade and a half, according to sensors aboard ESA's observation satellites. The forest and peat bog fires ignited this summer amid an unprecedented heat wave of up to 40 degrees C. Working like thermometers in the sky, the Along Track Scanning Radiometer and the Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer on ESA ... more A Passion for Wildfire Research Takes Her Around the World ![]() Elena Kukavskaya's love of nature began at an early age, in a very cold and faraway place. She was raised in Siberia's third largest city - Krasnoyarsk - and as a child considered herself "an urban resident." So it was nice to escape to the country. "From little up, I love nature and enjoy the beautiful colors of the autumn landscape of the national reserve near Krasnoyarsk," she says. Tha ... more |
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![]() Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 14, 2010 USEC has announced that the Megatons to Megawatts program has eliminated the equivalent of 16,000 nuclear warheads by recycling 400 metric tons of weapons-grade uranium from Russia into low enriched uranium used as fuel in commercial nuclear power plants. The Megatons to Megawatts program is a unique, commercially financed government-industry partnership in which 500 metric tons of Russian weapons-grade uranium downblended to low enriched uranium is being supplied to USEC for delivery to USEC's cu ... read more |
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