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New International Standard For Spacecraft DockingParis, France (ESA) Oct 21, 2010 Partners in the International Space Station programme have agreed on a new standard for docking systems, which will be capable also of implementing berthing. The agreement allows a range of compatible, but not necessarily identical, mechanisms for spacecraft docking. A first agreed version of the Interface Definition Document will be released on 25 October. The International Docking System Standard (IDSS) provides the guidelines for a common interface to link spacecraft together. It builds on the ... read more |
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  Research Suggests Volcanoes Nixed Neanderthals New research suggests that climate change following massive volcanic eruptions drove Neanderthals to extinction and cleared the way for modern humans to thrive in Europe and Asia. The research ... more | .. |
  Crop Failures Set To Increase Under Climate Change Large-scale crop failures like the one that caused the recent Russian wheat crisis are likely to become more common under climate change due to an increased frequency of extreme weather events, a ne ... more | .. |
  Lunar Probe And Space Exploration Is China's Duty To Mankind A chief designer with China's second lunar probe project has said that the country's lunar pursuit, while lagging behind Russia and the United States for more than 40 years, is still important becau ... more | .. |
 ISS Crew Hard At Work As New Crew Members Prepare For Launch The Expedition 25 crew has been working on the International Space Station's treadmill located inside the Russian segment. The treadmill is disassembled, inspected then reassembled as part of its si ... more | .. |
 Soyuz Moved To Pad For Thursday Launch To Station The Soyuz spacecraft that will carry three new Expedition 25 flight engineers to the International Space Station was rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday. ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 05, 2010Russia's Rokot carrier rockets will take two European Space Agency (ESA) scientific satellites to orbit in 2012-2013, the head of the ESA Moscow Office said on Monday. "We have signed contracts for two launches of ESA remote sensing satellites on Russia's Rokot carrier rockets," Rene Pischel said. The first launch will deliver to orbit the SWARM satellite, which will survey the geoma ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 04, 2010NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on Friday agreed to update the International Space Station launch schedule. The target launch dates for the last planned space shuttle flight, STS-134 on Endeavour, will be Feb. 27 and the Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) will be Feb. 15. Roscosmos will continue to look at Soyuz launch and landing optio ... more  
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Oct 01, 2010Russia on Thursday successfully launched a military satellite, said spokesman for Russian Space Forces Alexei Zolotukhin. A "Molniya-M" carrier rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia at 9:01 p.m. Moscow time (1701 GMT) , carrying a military satellite of "Cosmos" series, said the spokesman, adding that the launch took place in normal mode. The launch carr ... more |
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Soyuz TMA-18 Spaceship To Return To Earth FridayMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 24, 2010 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 time (01:34 GMT) and land at 08:55 am Moscow time (04:55 GMT) to the south-east of the central Kazakh city of ... read more |
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