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Cosmonauts To Perform 27th Russian ISS SpacewalkHouston TX (SPX) Jan 19, 2011 Two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Jan. 21 to complete installation of a new high-speed data transmission system, remove an old plasma pulse experiment, install a camera for the new Rassvet docking module and retrieve a materials exposure package. Expedition 26 Flight Engineers Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka are scheduled to float outside the Pirs airlock at 9:20 a.m. EST to begin the six-hour excursion. Both spacewalkers will wear Russian Orlan-M ... read more |
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  Radiometer Finds Sources Of Fire Forest fires usually spread out of control very quickly. Fires that produce a lot of smoke are particularly challenging for the emergency services, because the source of the fire is then especially ... more | .. |
  Space Adventures Signs Three Seat Soyuz Deal For 2013 Manifest 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 So ... more | .. |
  Russian Firm Builds Another Aerostat System For China Russia's Augur-RosAeroSystems will finish in 2011 the construction of a third large-size tethered aerostat under a contract with a Chinese firm, the company's president said. The Puma aerostat ... more | .. |
  Russian Air Force To Receive Up To 100 Sukhoi Fighter Jets By 2015 The Russian Air Force will receive up to 100 Sukhoi fighter jets by 2015, the Defense Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. Three state contracts with the Sukhoi design bureau on the supply of th ... more |
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  Russian Missile Maker To Build Two Plants, Expand Exports Russia's Almaz-Antei conglomerate will receive a government loan to build two new production facilities to expand the export of missile defense systems, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on W ... more | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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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