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![]() Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 30, 2011 Japan's HTV-2 Konotori robotic cargo space ship undocked from the International Space Station at 7.45 pm Moscow time (15.45 GMT), a Russian mission control center official said on Monday. The cargo ship will enter the atmosphere on Wednesday at 7.09 am Moscow time (03.09 GMT), and the unburnt fragments will fall into the Pacific Ocean 31 minutes later. The ship arrived at the 16-nation orbital outpost on January 27 carrying about five metric tons of cargo, including food and water supplies, ... read more |
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![]() Russia To Launch Space Freighter To ISS On April 27 A Russian cargo spacecraft will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 27, the Federal Space Agency said on Tuesday. The Progress M-10M will lift off atop a Soyuz-U carrier ... more | .. |
![]() Climate Talks: Storm Clouds Ahead When thousands of ministers, scientists and activists descended on the Mexican resort town of Cancun for another gruelling round of talks on climate change last December, there was little of the deb ... more | .. |
![]() Russian Boreal Forests Undergoing Vegetation Change Russia's boreal forest - the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world, found in the country's cold northern regions - is undergoing an accelerating large-scale shift in vegetation types as ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Study Predicts Large Regional Changes In Farmland Area The effects of climate change and population growth on agricultural land area vary from region to region, according to a new study by University of Illinois researchers. Regions with relative ... more | .. |
![]() Russia, Israel Agree On Cooperation In Outer Space The space agencies of Russia and Israel have signed an agreement on cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space, the press office of the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos said on Sund ... more | .. |
![]() US Welcomes Mutually Reinforcing Missile Defense Cooperation With Russia The United States sees Russia as a full-fledged participant in the European missile defense system, Ellen Tauscher, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affa ... more | .. |
![]() Russia's New Angara Rockets To Be Test Launched Before 2014 Test launches of Russia's new generation Angara booster rockets will begin no later than 2013, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said. Alexei Zolotukhin said work to build on-ground inf ... more |
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![]() Russian Military To Buy 36 ICBMs, 2 Missile Subs In 2011 The Russian Defense Ministry will buy 36 strategic ballistic missiles, two strategic missile submarines and 20 strategic cruise missiles this year, Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Friday. O ... more | .. |
![]() Russian Investigators Probe Roscosmos Workers For Glonass Loss The Russian Investigative Committee said on Tuesday it is probing workers at Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, for negligence that may have caused the loss of three Glonass-M satellites in D ... more | .. |
![]() Russia And US Begin Data Exchange Under New START The United States and Russia have begun exchanging information on their nuclear stockpiles under a new U.S.-Russian arms reduction treaty, a senior U.S. official said. "With entry into force o ... more | .. |
![]() Russia To Revamp Air Defense With S-400, Pantsir-S Systems All air defense regiments in the Russian Armed Forces will be equipped with advanced S-400 Triumf and Pantsir-S missile systems by 2020, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. "We are p ... more |
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![]() Roscosmos Sets April 5 For Soyuz TMA-21 Launch Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has approved the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 piloted spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 5. The launch was originally scheduled ... more | .. |
![]() Launch Of New ISS mission Slated For April 5 The launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft carrying members of a new crew to the International Space Station has been tentatively scheduled for April 5, a source at the Baikonur Space Center said on ... more | .. |
![]() Northern Peatlands A Misunderstood Player In Climate Change University of Alberta researchers have determined that the influence of northern peatlands on the prehistorical record of climate change has been over estimated, but the vast northern wetlands must ... more | .. |
![]() Paolo Nespoli's MagISStra Mission At Midway Point ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is now half way into his six-month mission on the International Space Station. Monday's handover of command heralds the departure of three crewmembers and the arrival of ... more |
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![]() Houston To Name Avenue After Soviet Cosmonaut Gagarin The Russkiy Mir foundation will next week name a park avenue in the U.S. city of Houston after the first man in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. To mark the 50th anniversary of the histor ... more | .. |
![]() USDA And Russian Scientists Develop High-Tech Crop Map AgroAtlas is a new interactive website that shows the geographic distributions of 100 crops; 640 species of crop diseases, pests, and weeds; and 560 wild crop relatives growing in Russia and neighbo ... more | .. |
![]() LRO Images Lunar Farside In Stunning Detail Because the moon is tidally locked (meaning the same side always faces Earth), it was not until 1959 that the farside was first imaged by the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft (hence the Russian names for pr ... more | .. |
![]() Natural Variability Driver Of Deadly Russian Heat Wave The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes, according to a new study. And while the scientists could not attribute the in ... more |
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![]() ISRO Likley To Launch Resourcesat-2 In April Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is likely to launch Resourcesat-2, a remote sensing satellite that will provide information on biophysical and geophysical parameters on the Earth's surface ... more | .. |
![]() Russia To Start Operating New Glonass-K Satellite By Year End Russia will start operating its new Glonass-K navigation satellite, which is now undergoing in-orbit tests, by the end of the year, the head of the Russian Space Systems construction bureau has said ... more | .. |
![]() Russia Lacks Enough Carrier Rockets To Fulfill 2011 Launch Plans Russia lacks carrier rockets to carry out all space launches scheduled for 2011, the head of the Roscosmos space agency said on Wednesday. "We have a number of spacecraft that should be launch ... more | .. |
![]() Minister Attacks Russian Space Agency Over Failure To Build New Spacecraft Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov accused Russian space agency Roscosmos of failing to manufacture enough advanced spacecraft. "We failed to make progress in the construction of new spacecra ... more |
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![]() Russia's Space Program Suffers Setback In 2010 Russia failed to develop its new space systems by timetable last year, but left more to be desired, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Monday. "We failed to change the s ... more | .. |
![]() Russian Army To Receive Advanced Weaponry In 2011 The Russian Ground Forces will start receiving a number of advanced weapons in 2011, including modernized S-300V4 air defense missile systems, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. "Starting in ... more | .. |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() Russia Grounds Launches Of Rokot Carrier Rocket 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 ... more | .. |
![]() 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 |
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