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![]() Paris, France (ESA) Oct 14, 2011 International space cooperation will be highlighted in a historic event on 20 October: the launch of Europe's first Galileo navigation satellites on Russia's first Soyuz rocket to depart from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Liftoff is scheduled for Thursday, 20 October at 12:34 CEST (11:34 GMT, 07:34 local time). The launch will be the first time that Russia's venerable Soyuz vehicle has ascended from European territory, adding a trusted workhorse to Europe's launchers family. Thi ... read more |
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![]() Russian Space objectives Russia plans to carry out an unmanned lunar flight before 2050, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said. Speaking at a State Duma session, he emphasized that further research ... more | .. |
![]() Russia puts off building of AK-T space laboratory Russia has postponed the building of the AK-T space laboratory due to lack of scientific projects the station has been designed for, a Russian space agency official said Friday. The project wo ... more | .. |
![]() A living species of aquatic beetle found in 20-million-year-old sediments The fossil beetle discovered in the 16-23 million years old sediments of the Irtysh River in southern Siberia belongs to the modern species Helophorus sibiricus, a member of the water scavenger beet ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Russia sets priorities for federal space program The Russian space agency Roscosmos has prioritized commercial use of its satellites as part of the federal space program until 2015. "By 2015, we are planning to increase the number of Earth o ... more | .. |
![]() Russia puts new Rus-M carrier rocket project on hold The Russian space agency has dropped plans to construct a new Rus-M carrier rocket by 2015, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said on Friday. "We have come to the conclusion that we do not need ... more | .. |
![]() Russian Space Forces to conduct 14 rocket launches by year end Russia's Space Forces will carry out 14 launches of various carrier rockets until the end of 2011, SF commander Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said. "About 14 launches will be carried out from the Pl ... more | .. |
![]() US telecoms satellite reaches designated orbit The U.S. Intelsat 18 telecommunications satellite was put into orbit on Thursday, a spokesman for Russian space agency Roscosmos said. "The separation took place according to the schedule. The ... more |
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![]() Russia's solar potential Russia is the biggest country in the world and one of biggest suppliers of oil and gas has not yet seen a real need to develop a market for solar technologies. This might change during the nex ... more | .. |
![]() Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket orbits Glonass satellite Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has put into orbit a Glonass-M navigation satellite, Space Forces spokesman Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said on Monday. He said the satellite separated from th ... more | .. |
![]() Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket orbits Glonass satellite Russia's Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has put into orbit a Glonass-M navigation satellite, Space Forces spokesman Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said on Monday. He said the satellite separated from th ... more | .. |
![]() Many roads lead to Asia The discovery by Russian archaeologists of the remains of an extinct prehistoric human during the excavation of Denisova Cave in Southern Siberia in 2008 was nothing short of a scientific sensation. ... more |
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![]() Sea Launch resumes operations after 2-year break International consortium Sea Launch resumed its operations on Saturday with a launch of a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a European telecoms satellite, the company said. The rocke ... more | .. |
![]() Proton-M puts military purpose spacecraft into orbit Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket successfully put a military satellite into orbit, Russian Defense Ministry Space Forces spokesman said. "The launch on Wednesday, September 21, at 02.47 GMT fr ... more | .. |
![]() New packaging for old US rocket According to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, the U.S. will develop a new heavy-lift launch vehicle to send astronauts to an asteroid and to Mars. However, there is nothing revolutionary in the ne ... more | .. |
![]() Russia to resume deep space explorations with Phobos expedition Russia would resume its program of inter-planetary explorations after a long break with an unmanned mission to the Martian satellite Phobos, a Russian space company said Thursday. According to ... more |
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![]() Russian space agency needs reforms - Roscosmos head The head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday that recent failed launches were a reflection of the agency's management problems. "We have found the causes [of the failures] a ... more | .. |
![]() Russia may launch its first Earth remote sensing satellite in 2012 Russia's first Earth remote sensing satellite, the Kondor, may be launched in January 2012, a space official said on Thursday. "We are developing Kondor and Arkon [satellites]," deputy head of ... more | .. |
![]() The US will conquer deep space with Russian engines The United States has announced it is developing a heavy rocket for deep space expeditions. It might use Russian-made engines which is the result of house-cleaning in the U.S. space industry. ... more | .. |
![]() The cause of Earth's largest environmental catastrophe The eruption of giant masses of magma in Siberia 250 million years ago led to the Permo-Triassic mass extinction when more than 90 % of all species became extinct. An international team includ ... more |
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![]() Japanese meteorological firm to launch satellite to track Arctic sea ice Japanese Weathernews will launch a satellite in September 2012 that will provide navigational services to ships travelling along the Russian and North American coasts in the Arctic Ocean, the newspa ... more | .. |
![]() Russia set to launch Glonass-M satellite on Oct. 1 A Russian Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has been scheduled to lift off on October 1 to put another Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit, a Space Forces spokesman said. The launch has been pos ... more | .. |
![]() Build-up is underway for the no. 1 Soyuz to be launched from French Guiana The first Soyuz to be operated from French Guiana has begun the integration process, marking a major step toward Arianespace's introduction of the workhorse medium-lift vehicle into its launcher fam ... more | .. |
![]() Private US capsule not to dock with ISS The U.S. private space capsule Dragon will conduct a flight near the International Space Station (ISS), but docking between them is not planned, Vladimir Solovyov, head of the Russian segment of the ... more |
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![]() Russia announces launch of 2 spacecraft in Oct-Nov Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday it has tentatively set the nearest launch of a Progress space freighter on October 30 and a Soyuz manned spacecraft on November 12. Another Soyuz ... more | .. |
![]() Three ISS crew members scheduled to return on Friday Three members of the crew currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are scheduled to return to Earth on Friday, September 16, the Russian mission control center said. The Soyuz TM ... more | .. |
![]() Proliferating Surveillance Satellites Almost 50 Earth observing satellites were launched in the past 10 years in addition to military and weather satellites. A further 200 or so are expected to be launched by 2020. Eight countries have ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Sits Tight as Unmanned Space Station Considered The failure of a Russian Soyuz cargo rocket several minutes after launch last month, and Russia's decision to suspend all Soyuz launches while it investigates the cause, has created some problems fo ... more |
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![]() SES and Gazprom to provide additional satellite capacity to Russian market Global satellite operator SES S.A. and Russian fixed satellite service operator Gazprom Space System (GSS) announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide additional satelli ... more | .. |
![]() Roscosmos to enhance control of Soyuz rocket engines' production A special commission investigating the causes of the August 24 failed launch of Russia's Soyuz carrier rocket has recommended enhancing the control of the production of engines for Soyuz rockets, Ru ... more | .. |
![]() Planetary Congress meeting in Moscow The Association of Space Explores (ASE) Planetary Congress has started in Moscow and will run from the 5th to the 9th of September. The ASE and its participants are cosmonauts and astronauts and the ... more | .. |
![]() Russia beefs up Plesetsk space center funding Russia will spend over 5 billion rubles ($170 mln) on the development and expansion of the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia this year, Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said on W ... more |
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