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![]() Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 13, 2010 The implementation of the project to build the first space hotel will only start after a contract between Russian state-owned rocket and space corporation Energia and Moscow-based company Orbital Technologies is signed, the Energia head said. Orbital Technologies on Wednesday announced sky-high plans to launch an orbiting hotel in space by 2015-2016. "As of now, the company only has an agreement of intent. When we have a firm contract, there will be the terms and engineering design," Vitaly ... read more |
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International Partners Discuss ISS Extension And Use![]() 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 Agenc ... more Soyuz TMA-18 Spaceship To Return To Earth Friday ![]() The Russian Soyuz TMA-18 spaceship with three crew members on board will depart early on Friday from the International Space Station, a spokesman for Russia's Mission Control said. The three crew members are Russian cosmonauts Aleksander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson. The Soyuz spaceship is expected to undock from the ISS at 05:34 am Moscow ... more Soyuz Spacecraft Upgrade Ups Payload By 70 Kg ![]() New onboard digital command and control systems have helped increase the payload of Russia's manned Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft by 70 kg, the head of the Energia space corporation said on Tuesday. The new equipment replaces the Argon analogue system that has been used for more than 30 years, Vitaly Lopota said. A Soyuz with a new digital computing and telemetric system will be launched ... more |
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![]() Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 23, 2010 Satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space signed a three-party agreement with two Russian space enterprises to supply electronic components for three communications satellites, the company said Wednesday. The space enterprises are the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) and Information Satellite Systems - Reshetnev Company (ISS - Reshetnev). "Thales Alenia Space will be the communications payloads supplier. The satellite will be based on an Express 1000 platform provided by JSC ... read more |
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