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Russian Cosmonauts To Get New Uniform, Anna Chapman Not InvolvedMoscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 22, 2011 Experts are designing a new uniform for Russia's cosmonauts but former spy Anna Chapman is not among them despite some media reports, the chief of the astronaut training center said on Friday. "A few groups [designers] have moved from words to business independently, but Anna Chapman is not among them yet," said Sergei Krikalyov of the Gagarin Astronaut Training Center. Chapman, 28, referred to as a "hot Russian spy" in foreign media, was arrested in New York last June as a member of a Russi ... read more |
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  ISS Partners Mull Unique Photo-Op The international space station (ISS) partners are currently discussing a possibility to stage an extraordinary photo opportunity in March that would yield photo and video images of the space statio ... more | .. |
  Former Spy Chapman May Participate In Creation Of Uniform For Space Industry Former spy Anna Chapman wants to participate in the designing of a uniform for ground specialists of Russian space centers, Gagarin Astronaut Training Center's chief astronaut Sergei Krikalev said o ... more | .. |
 Cosmonauts Conclude Russia 28th Spacewalk from Station Flight Engineers Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka re-entered and closed the hatch on the Pirs airlock, concluding Russia's 28th spacewalk from the International Space Station. The 4-hour, 51-mi ... more | .. |
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  Walking On Mars Three crewmembers of the virtual flight to Mars have 'landed' on their destination planet and two of them today took their first steps on the simulated martian terrain. The highlight of the Mars500 ... more | .. |
 Cosmonauts To Perform 28th Russian Space Station Spacewalk For the second time in less than a month, two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Feb. 16 to install a pair of earthquake and lightning sensing experiments, an ... more | .. |
  Stardust Heading Into The Bonus Round A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round," said Stardust-NExT Project Manager Ti ... more | .. |
  Russia To Launch Glonass Satellite Feb 24 Russia will launch a new Glonass-K navigation satellite from the Plesetsk space center on February 24, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The Glonass satellite network is Russia's answer ... more |
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 Mars 500: Landing On The Simulated Red Planet 'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at t ... more | .. |
 Medvedev Calls For Russian Space Exploration Program Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Russia should develop its own space exploration program. "I believe this is a very important topic, even in terms of our scientific ambitions, ... more | .. |
  Arctic Fisheries Catches 75 Times Higher Than Previous Reports University of British Columbia researchers estimate that fisheries catches in the Arctic totaled 950,000 tonnes from 1950 to 2006, almost 75 times the amount reported to the United Nations Food and ... more | .. |
 Russian Cosmonauts To Conduct Spacewalk Feb 16 Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station are preparing to conduct a spacewalk on February 16, mission control said on Monday. Dmitry Kondratyev and Oleg Skripochka, both ... more |
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 International Partners Discuss ISS Operations The International Space Station partner agencies met Thursday, Feb. 3, by videoconference to discuss coordinating the increased use of the space station as a research laboratory. The agencies want t ... more | .. |
  Russia To Unveil New Air Defense System At Indian Air Show A Russian firm will disclose information about a new mobile short-range air defense system based on the Strelets launcher at the upcoming Aero India 2011 air show. "The [Kolomna-based] Enginee ... more | .. |
 Russia Tests Upgraded Mig Fighter Jet For India Russia's MiG corporation on Friday carried out the first test fight of a MiG-29 fighter modernized under a contract with the Indian Air Force (IAF). "On February 4, 2010, a MiG-29UPG fighter c ... more | .. |
  Russia's Second Graney Class Nuclear Sub To Enter Service In 2015 The Russian Navy will receive a second Graney class nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine in 2015, a spokesman for the Malakhit design bureau said. The construction of the Kazan submar ... more |
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Airbus CO3D satellites begin mission to generate high precision global 3D map
NASA teams with India to launch Earth-tracking satellite
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  Russia Loses New Military Satellite Russia has most likely lost a new dual-purpose geodesic satellite after it failed to reach a designated circular orbit 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) above Earth. The GEO-IK-2 satellite, designe ... more | .. |
 Russia To Stay In Kazakh Cosmodrome For Economic Reasons Russia will never leave the Baikonur cosmodrome rented in Kazakhstan, even upon the completion of its new Vostochny space launch site, the head of Russia's Space agency Roskosmos said on Monday. ... more | .. |
  Second Sun May Appear At Any Moment Scientists claim that Betelgeuse, a star 640 light years away from Earth, is going to explode soon. Nikolai Chugai, head of the department of Variable Stars and Astronomical Spectroscopy of the Russ ... more | .. |
 Russian Space Freighter Progress M-09M Docks With ISS A Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress M-09M, docked on Sunday with the International Space Station (ISS). A Soyuz-U booster rocket carrying the spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur space ce ... more |
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  ISRO Awaits Data On GSLV Failure The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is awaiting data analysis from Russia, who supplied the cryogenic engine, to finalise its report on the failure of the GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite La ... more | .. |
 Russian Answer To US Reusable Robotic Spacecraft In The Offing Russian researchers are working on an unmanned spacecraft similar to the U.S. Boeing X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle, Space Troops chief Oleg Ostapenko said on Thursday. He said, however, it was not ... more | .. |
 Russian Space Programs Underfunded Russia is not in a position to carry out global space programs single-handedly and should team up with India and Kazakhstan, veteran rocket scientist Boris Chertok said on Tuesday. He said Rus ... more | .. |
  Russian Astronomers Predict Apophis-Earth Collision In 2036 Russian astronomers have predicted that asteroid Apophis may strike Earth on April 13, 2036. "Apophis will approach Earth at a distance of 37,000-38,000 kilometers on April 13, 2029. Its likel ... more |
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Light driven visual microphone offers new tool for silent sound detection
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 Russia Plans To Build Carrier Rocket For Mars Missions Russia's Khrunichev research center plans to develop a new super-heavy carrier rocket that will be used to launch piloted spacecraft to Mars. "The super-heavy carrier rocket will be based on t ... more | .. |
 Russia To Launch New Batch Of Glonass Satellites By June Russia will launch another three Glonass-M satellites on board a Proton heavy carrier rocket later this year to complete the orbiting Glonass grouping, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos sa ... more | .. |
 DLR Researchers Simulate The Martian Atmosphere To support the European ExoMars Mission to explore the Red Planet, an international project is being launched on 20 January 2011 with the aim of simulating the entry of spacecraft into the martian a ... more | .. |
 Russia's Spaceship Debris Slump Into Pacific Ocean The Russian space cargo ship Progress M-08M left orbit and fell into the Pacific Monday after three month of work at the International Space Station (ISS), reported the Mission Control Center outsid ... more |
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 Chinese Astronaut Performs Well In Mars-500 Project A Chinese participant has performed well in the Mars-500 project, a simulated space flight to Mars, the project's chief said Friday here. Boris Morukov, who is also deputy director of the Medi ... more | .. |
 Cosmonauts Perform 27th Russian ISS Spacewalk Two Russian cosmonauts ventured 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, insta ... more | .. |
 ISS Resupply From Four Corners Of Globe A quick succession of international space supply trucks will arrive on the International Space Station's loading docks early in 2011, dropping off more than 11 tons (10,000 kilograms) of food, compu ... more | .. |
  Russia Launches Meteorological Satellite Russia launched on Thursday a Zenit-3SB rocket carrying a meteorological satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, said. "The launch was carried ... more |
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