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Space Adventures Signs Three Seat Soyuz Deal For 2013 ManifestVienna, VA (SPX) Jan 13, 2011 Space Adventures has reached an agreement with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) and Rocket Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) to commercially offer three seats on the Soyuz spacecraft bound for the International Space Station (ISS), beginning in 2013. These seats will be made available through the increase of Soyuz production, from four to five spacecraft per year. Each flight will be short duration, approximately 10 days, and will contribute to the increase of launch ... read more |
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  Russia To Launch 50 ComSats Over Next Five Years Russia plans to launch five Glonass communication satellites in 2011 and 48 more later to create a Cosmonaut information highway, local media reported Wednesday. There are 20 of 26 Glonass sat ... more | .. |
  Russia To Develop New Heavy ICBM By 2020 Russia's state arms procurement program through 2020 provides for the development of a new heavy ballistic missile, a leading missile designer said on Monday. The final decision should be made ... more | .. |
  Semisopochnoi Island It is the "Island of the Seven Mountains, " or more precisely in Russian: "having seven hills." This uninhabited volcanic island is also an important nesting area for maritime birds of the North Pac ... more | .. |
  President Medvedev Sacks Space Officials Over Satellite Loss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed two senior space industry officials and reprimanded the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov on Wednesday over the recent loss of thr ... more |
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  Russia's Mission Control To Readjust ISS Orbit Russia's Mission Control is preparing to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles). The readjustment is necessary to ensur ... more | .. |
  Indian And Russian Scientists Discuss Rocket Launch Delay Indian and Russian space scientists are discussing the remedial measures that need to be taken after a leak was detected in the cryogenic engine of a rocket that was to place an advanced communicati ... more | .. |
 Launch Of New Russian Navigation Satellite Postponed To Next Year The launch of Russia's new-generation Glonass-K satellite has been postponed until 2011, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The satellite atop a Soyuz-2.1.b carrier rocket was to blast off ... more | .. |
 ISRO Puts Off GSLV Launch 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 Mo ... more |
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  Russia And India Fix T-50 Fighter Design Contract Russia and India have agreed the estimated cost of a design contract for their joint fifth-generation fighter project at $295 million, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Chairman Ashok Nayak said i ... more | .. |
  Uncertain World: Arguments Against Russia Joining NATO This past year saw a lot of speculation about whether Russia will ultimately join NATO. Prominent analysts and former politicians took to the pages of Western publications to voice their opinion on ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Russian Rocket With Three Crew Blasts Off Into Space A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a crew of three to the International Space Station blasted off Wednesday from Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-20 rocket, with a ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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