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![]() Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 20, 2010 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s next Geosynchronous Satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-FO6) flight from the Satish Dhawan spaceport at Sriharikota, 100 km north of here, scheduled for Monday, has been suddenly put off on Sunday. In a terse announcement, the ISRO said the launch of the GSLV-FO6 with India's latest communication satellite "GSAT-5P," scheduled for December 20, has been postponed "due to a minor leak in one of the valves of the Russian cryogenic stage, observed during pre- ... read more |
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![]() US And Russia Find Some Common Ground On The Koreas On Wednesday night, South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Wi Sung-lac departed from Moscow after talks at the Russian Foreign Ministry, two days after ... more | .. |
![]() Western Military District Gets First Iskander Tactical Missile System The first Iskander tactical surface-to-surface ballistic missile system has entered service with the Russian Army's Western Military District, regional commander Arkady Bakhin said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
![]() Russian Military To Receive 1,300 Types Of Weaponry By 2020 The Russian Armed Forces will receive over 1,300 types of weaponry in line with a draft arms procurement program until 2020, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. "We will need to set ... more | .. |
![]() Surplus Fuel Believed Cause For Russia's Glonass Satellite Loss 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 commissio ... more |
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![]() Roscosmos And NASA To Seal Deal On Joint Projects Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, and NASA are to sign a protocol on joint projects in manned and unmanned space travel, the Russian agency's head, Alexei Perminov, said on Wednesday. "We are ... more | .. |
![]() Kazakh Space Agency Seeks Extra Funding For New Baikonur Launch Pad Kazakhstan's national space agency, Kazcosmos, has requested more funding for the joint Russian-Kazakh project to build a new launch pad at the Baikonur space center. In late December 2004, Ru ... more | .. |
![]() Program Error Caused Russian Glonass Satellite Loss A program error caused a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket to deviate from its course and lose a booster carrying three Glonass-M satellites, a source in the Russian space industry said on Monday. ... more | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 |
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