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Russia Grounds Launches Of Rokot Carrier RocketMoscow (XNA) Feb 28, 2011 Russian Space Forces have grounded launches of Rokot light-class carrier rocket after its failed launch with military satellite Geo-IK-2, local reports said on Monday. The launches have to be halted until the completion of a investigation on Rokot's failure on Feb. 1, in which the rocket's Briz-KM upper stage failed to place the satellite in a designed orbit. The next launch of Rokot was scheduled at the end of March, but investigative commission said it would not complete its work by the de ... read more |
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  Russia To Probe Major Planets Before 2023 Russia will launch probes to several planets and their satellites, Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said Thursday. The probes are expected to study the moon and the Martian satellite ... more | .. |
  Russia, Israel Eye Joint Development Of Communication Satellites Russia and Israel have set up a joint group that would focus on the development of communications satellites, local media reported Friday. "We will consider the options of making several commu ... more | .. |
 The First Stage Of Project On Mes-System Mcis Fulfilled The pilot project of a manufacturing execution system implementation specially developed by Siemens AG for discrete manufacture has come closer to its basic operating stage by breadboard model deliv ... more | .. |
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  Russian Military Abandons Defense Satellite After Failed Launch The Russian defense ministry said on Thursday it would not use a military satellite that was sent into the wrong orbit earlier this month. The high-tech Geo-IK-2 was launched from the Plesetsk ... more | .. |
  Olympic Flame May Be Sent To ISS The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos is positive about a recently advanced idea to send Olympic Flame to the International Space Station (ISS) and back to Earth as a part of the preparations f ... more | .. |
  Russia Postpones Navigation Satellite Launch From Plesetsk The launch of the Glonass-K navigation satellite, scheduled to take place Thursday from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia was postponed for 24 hours, a defense ministry spokesman said. ... more | .. |
  Russian Cosmonauts To Get New Uniform, Anna Chapman Not Involved 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. ... more |
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Slingshot unveils TALOS AI to simulate and support strategic space operations
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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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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'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 | .. |
 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 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 |
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Bridges gain new voice through real time GNSS monitoring of structural behavior
Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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