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Surplus Fuel Believed Cause For Russia's Glonass Satellite LossMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Dec 13, 2010 The main cause of the loss of Russia's three Glonass-M satellites was due to human error from fueling the booster rocket with an excess of 1.5-2 tons of fuel, the head of the Russian state commission probing the incident said on Friday. The excessive fuel caused the DM-3 booster rocket to deviate from its course, leading to the subsequent loss of the satellites in the Pacific Ocean earlier in the week. "According to preliminary information, the problem was not with the fuel service unit at t ... read more |
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Hera spacecraft tests asteroid tracking with distant Otero and Kellyday observations
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  Expedition 25 Returns Home Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and Flight Engineers Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Thursday, wrapping up a five-month stay ... more | .. |
  VimpelCom Serves Growing Markets In Russia SES WORLD SKIES has announced VimpelCom has signed a capacity deal to meet the growing need for business communications capabilities throughout Russia. Utilizing 36MHz of C-band capacity and t ... more | .. |
 New ISS Crew Begins Pre-Flight Exams The main and the back-up crews of the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will begin two-day pre-flight exams on Wednesday, a Russian space official said. The main crew compr ... more | .. |
  Russia To Spend 2 Bln Dollars For Space Clean-Up Russia's Rocket and Space Corporation Energia announced Tuesday that it will build a special orbital pod designed for sweeping-up the near-Earth space from satellite debris. The system was est ... more |
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  Russia To Start Work On Nuclear Space Engine Next Year Russia's Energia space corporation said on Tuesday it is planning to start working on standardized space modules with nuclear-powered propulsion systems next year. Energia director Vitaly Lopo ... more | .. |
  Russia, India 'Likely' To Sign 5G Fighter Contract In December Russia and India are highly likely to sign a fifth-generation fighter design contract in December, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Thursday. Russia's Sukhoi holding and India's Hin ... more | .. |
 Russia Plans To Launch Nigerian Satellites In December Russia is planning to launch two Nigerian satellites into orbit in December, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X earth monitoring satellites will be launched to ... more | .. |
 Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013 Russia's next generation Glonass-K2 navigation satellite will be launched in 2013, Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday. "We have decided to modernize the Glonass signal s ... more |
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 German Robotic Arm Completes Its Five-Year ISS Mission Germany's first experiment in space robotics has now come to an end. On the evening of 15 November 2010, Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurichikhin and Oleg Skripochka performed a space walk during which ... more | .. |
  Soyuz Returns To Earth Earlier Than Planned Russia's Soyuz TMA-19 spaceship with a Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronauts on board will return to Earth earlier than planned because of an OSCE summit due on December 1-2 in Astana, a spokesman f ... more | .. |
 Russia To Conduct Half Of Carrier Rocket Launches From Far East By 2020 Russia intends to carry out up to 45 percent of its carrier rocket launches from the Vostochny Space Center, under construction in the Far East, by 2020, the deputy head of Russian Federal Space Age ... more | .. |
 Space Station Spacewalk Under Russian Program Planned For Today Two Russian cosmonauts will float outside one of the International Space Station's hatchways on Monday to perform a grab bag of spacewalking tasks that outfit the Russian segment for future assembly ... more |
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  Russia Launches Advanced US Telecom Satellite A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a U.S. telecommunications satellite blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Sunday, a spokesman for Russian space agency Roskosmos said. ... more | .. |
 ISS Operations Mark 10 Years Ten years ago the crew of Expedition 1 (the ISS-1) began to work onboard the International Space Station (ISS). The Station operation in the manned mode was started. This historical moment became po ... more | .. |
  'Russian Doll' Galaxy Reveals Black Holes' True Power Following a study of what is in effect a miniature galaxy buried inside a normal-sized one - like a Russian doll - astronomers using a CSIRO telescope have concluded that massive black holes are mor ... more | .. |
  Bulava Missile Program Faces Decision Time The decision to put Russia's Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile into service will be made by the country's leadership and only after the test program is complete, a government source said o ... more |
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  NATO Defense Shield In Turkey May Threaten Iran, Russia Possible deployment of the elements of NATO missile defense shield in Turkey is targeted against Iran and may pose a threat to Russia's security, Russian experts said on Saturday. Earlier on S ... more | .. |
  France Ready To Build First Mistral Warship For Russia In 2013 If Moscow and Paris sign a contract to build Mistral class helicopter carriers for Russia, the first warship may be built in 2013, a top manager of French STX Europe shipbuilder said on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Russian Drifting Polar Station SP-38 Opens In Chukchi Sea In the bitterly cold darkness more than a thousand kilometers above the Arctic Circle, a team of Russian scientists on Friday inaugurated a floating research station that will be home to 15 research ... more | .. |
  Russia, Qatar Sign Memorandum Of Cooperation On Peaceful Nuclear Use Russia and Qatar signed on Tuesday a memorandum of cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The document was signed in Moscow by Nikolai Spasski, the deputy director of the Russian state-r ... more |
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  Russia To Build Its First Industrial Solar Power Station Russia's high-tech companies Rusnano and Renova have announced plans to build the country's first industrial solar power station near the Black Sea. The 12.3 megawatt station will be built in ... more | .. |
 Work On ISS Could Continue Until 2020 The International Space Station (ISS) could remain operational until 2020 if experts agree on the program of future on-board scientific experiments, a Russian cosmonaut said on Tuesday. The se ... more | .. |
 India Plans Two Rocket Launches Next Month India is planning two rocket launches next month that would carry on board home-made communication and remote sensing satellites, along with a Russian payload and a Singaporean micro spacecraft. ... more | .. |
  SMOS Water Mission Celebrates First Year In Orbit One year ago, ESA's SMOS satellite was launched to improve our knowledge of the water cycle. We are now not only closer to understanding more about Earth, but the novel technology employed by SMOS i ... more |
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