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Russian river water unexpected culprit behind Arctic fresheningPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 05, 2012 A hemispherewide phenomenon - and not just regional forces - has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea. Frigid freshwater flowing into the Arctic Ocean from three of Russia's mighty rivers was diverted hundreds of miles to a completely different part of the ocean in response to a decades-long shift in atmospheric pressure associated with the phenomenon called the Arctic Oscillation, according to findings published in the Jan. 5 issue of Nature. ... read more |
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  Minister orders Russian space agency security blitz after blogger invasion Russia's space agency Roscosmos has been given until January to rectify security at its plants or face the consequences, after a reported penetration of its rocket plant in northern Moscow. A ... more | .. |
  Russia, India to cooperate in production of satellite navigation equipment Russia and India intend to cooperate in the production of satellite navigation equipment and to provide services to civilian users of the Glonass system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian ... more | .. |
  Owner of house hit by satellite fixes roof himself amid compensation snag A Siberian homeowner who miraculously escaped serious injury when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house had to fix it himself as the authorities wrang ... more | .. |
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  Launch of Russian Proton-M carrier rocket postponed The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunications satellite SES-4 (NSS-14) onboard was called off on Monday due to "technical problems", a spokesman for the Khrunichev ... more | .. |
 Russia's space chief says industry in 'crisis' after latest failure Russia's space industry needs an influx of new faces to overcome its current crisis, the head of the Roscosmos agency said on Friday, hours after a satellite crashed in southern Siberia. "The ... more | .. |
Siberian man miraculously unharmed as satellite piece crashes through roof A Siberian resident miraculously escaped serious injury or even death when a fragment of a Russian communication satellite crashed through the roof of his house. A Meridian satellite that was ... more | .. |
  New crew arrives at international space station The Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Friday with a new crew of three onboard. The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhs ... more |
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Airbus to develop advanced PAZ-2 radar satellites for Spanish defence and civil operations
Rocket Lab partners with Bollinger Shipyards to transform Neutron sea recovery platform
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  Russia successfully test fires Bulava missiles Russia successfully test launched two Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles on Friday, Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Igor Konashenkov said. The missiles were launched from the Borey-cla ... more | .. |
  Mankind faces long road in space exploration After the retirement of the U.S. space shuttle fleet, the only way for astronauts to reach the International Space Station (ISS) is by Russia's Soyuz spacecraft until at least 2015. However, as one ... more | .. |
  Phobos-Grunt mission now impossible says chief designer Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which has been stuck in the wrong orbit for more than a month, will not be able to complete its mission, the head and chief designer of the Lavochkin spacecraft con ... more | .. |
 Glonass satnav system targets Latin America and India The Latin American and Indian markets will be a priority for Glonass, Russia's global satellite navigation system, Russian Space Systems Deputy General Director Grigory Stupak said on Tuesday. ... more |
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 Russia could join ExoMars as full partner Russia could become a full partner in a planned U.S.-European Mars exploration project, a European Space Agency (ESA) spokesman has said. The Space News International website quoted Franco Bon ... more | .. |
Russia to put two more Glonass satellites into operation Two more Glonass navigation satellites will be up and running before the end of the year, Russian space officials said on Thursday. "We plan to put two more satellites into operation before th ... more | .. |
  Path to Oxygen in Earth's Atmosphere: Long Series of Starts and Stops The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to geoscientists who investigated rock cores from the ... more | .. |
  Global Carbon Project annual emissions summary The Global Carbon Project (GCP) published its annual analysis in the journal Nature Climate Change, reporting that the impact of the GFC on emissions has been short-lived owing to strong emissions g ... more |
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ICEYE satellite data accelerates flood relief in southern Brazil
Massive Boulders Ejected During DART Mission Complicate Future Asteroid Deflection Efforts
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  SES Appoints New Commercial Head For Europe SES has announced the appointment of Ferenc Szelenyi as its new Senior Vice President Commercial Europe for SES. He succeeds Norbert Holzle in this function, who has decided to leave SES. Fere ... more | .. |
 Rise of atmospheric oxygen more complicated than previously thought The appearance of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investiga ... more | .. |
 Russia's Glonass-M satellite put into orbit Russia sent another Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit on Monday, said Alexei Zolotukhin, spokesman of Russian Space Forces. The Soyuz carrier rocket with the satellite on board was lau ... more | .. |
 Romantis Extends Occasional Use Capacity Lease on Express-AM44 Romantis has announced that it signed an extension to its agreement for the occasional-use bandwidth on the Express-AM44 satellite (11 degrees West) with the Russian Satellite Communications Company ... more |
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 The Martian Chronicles Continues With Russian Bit Part While the future of Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe remains unclear, a team of experts from a space research institute in Moscow has arrived in the United States where NASA is about to launch its Curios ... more | .. |
 Did US climate weapon knock-out Russian probe Russian space experts are struggling to decode fresh telemetry signals received from the stricken Phobos-Grunt probe. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that America's ionosphere research site in Ala ... more | .. |
 ESA station keeps contact with Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt Following the first successful contact on Tuesday, ESA's tracking station in Australia again established two-way communication with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on 23 November. The data received ... more | .. |
 Data beamed from Russia Mars probe deciphered Russian specialists have deciphered telemetry data received from a wayward Mars probe, but have yet to find out the cause of its erratic behavior, a space industry source said on Thursday. "So ... more |
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Tens of millions of tons of nanoplastics detected adrift in North Atlantic
Drone swarm explores turbulent airflows near wind turbines
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 ESA tracking station establishes contact with Russia's Mars mission On Tuesday, 22 November at 20:25 GMT, ESA's tracking station at Perth, Australia, established contact with Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft. Contact with the Mars mission was lost shortly after sepa ... more | .. |
 Satellite junk no threat to space station crew Russian Mission Control has dismissed NASA's prediction that the three astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) may need to take shelter inside Russian space capsules on Wednesday mo ... more | .. |
Russian experts baffled by erratic behavior of Mars probe Russian Federal Space Agency experts are puzzled by the rising orbit of the Phobos-Grunt unmanned Mars probe, Roscosmos deputy head Vitaly Davydov said on Tuesday. The probe was launched on No ... more | .. |
  Russia wants to focus on Moon if Mars mission fails If Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars mission fails the country's space agency may focus on Moon exploration, the deputy head of the Roscosmos agency said on Tuesday. The Mars probe was launched from ... more |
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 Space Station Trio Lands Safely in Kazakhstan Three International Space Station crew members safely returned to Earth on Monday, wrapping up nearly six months in space during which NASA and its international partners celebrated the 11th anniver ... more | .. |
  Russia, France to team up on new launchers Russia and France will pool their efforts to build cutting-edge reusable space rockets, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday. "Russian and French engineers are already working in this ... more | .. |
Last chance to send Russian Mars moon probe expires Monday The launch window to send Russia's Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft to a Mars moon will close on Monday, an airspace source told RIA Novosti. "The spacecraft has already unfolded its solar panels an ... more | .. |
  Gilat teams with RTComm and NIIR for Russian VSAT Network Gilat Satellite Networks has signed agreements with Russian-based service provider RTComm, the satellite service arm of Rostelecom Group), Russia's national telecommunications operator, and with NII ... more |
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