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Russian Space Freighter to be Buried in PacificMoscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 26, 2012 The Progress M-13M cargo spacecraft will be sunk in a remote area in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday after deploying a micro-satellite, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said. The space freighter undocked from the Pirs docking module on the International Space Station (ISS) at 02:10 a.m. Moscow time on Tuesday (22:10 on Monday GMT). After two orbit corrections, the Progress was positioned at about 500 km from the orbital station to deploy the Chibis-M micro-satellite, which carries ... read more |
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  NASA Debunks Life on Venus Claim NASA has dismissed the sensational claim by a Russian scientist that there is life on Venus, saying that the "disc" seen moving on the surface was in fact a lens cap. Earlier this month an art ... more | .. |
  Proton-M, Dutch Satellite Taken to Launch Pad The Proton-M carrier rocket with the Dutch SES-4 (NSS-14) satellite was installed on a launch pad at the Baikonur space center, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday. The launch ... more | .. |
  Russia's space programs fully financed until 2016 The Russian government has fully financed its space research programs until 2016, including two Moon expeditions, a leading Russian aerospace company Lavochkin said Tuesday. According to Lavoc ... more | .. |
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  U.S. Denies Link to Mars Mission Failure A spokesperson at the Department of State denied information that the crash of the Phobos-Grunt probe to the Martian moon Phobos could have been caused by a powerful electromagnetic emission from a ... more | .. |
 Russia Readies ISS Space Freighter Launch A Soyuz-U launch vehicle carrying the Progress M-14M cargo spacecraft will be transported to a launch site at the Baikonur space center on Tuesday, Russian space agency Roscosmos said. "A stat ... more | .. |
  Military Equipment-to-Simulator Hourly/cost Ratio is Ten to One The US has observed budget cuts, a situation which is projected to continue in the future. Despite this, North America is expected to account for the largest share of the total global military simul ... more | .. |
 Space Agency Boss Blames Makers for Satellite Crash A Russian government commission looking into the crash of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe says engineering flaws were the main cause of its failure, the head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Vladi ... more |
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France says Australia defence ties repaired after submarine row
Trump: U.S. to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine, EU to pay bill
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  Roscosmos Revives Permanent Moon Base Plans Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is in talks with its European and U.S. partners on the creation of manned research bases on the Moon, the agencies chief, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Thursday. "W ... more | .. |
  China Plans to Launch 30 Satellites in 2012 China is planning to launch 21 carrier rockets with 30 satellites in 2012, the China Aerospace and Technology Corporation (CASC) said on Wednesday. The country's ambitious space program will s ... more | .. |
  US to Launch Space Arms-Control Initiative The United States is launching a new space arms-control initiative, as a Russian official accuses a U.S. radar of being behind the failure of Russia's Mars probe. U.S. Secretary of State Hilla ... more | .. |
  Russian Scientists Mock U.S. Radar Theory on Mars Probe The theory that Russia's Mars mission failed due to a U.S. radar is extremely "exotic," Russian scientists said on Tuesday. Phobos-Grunt, Russia's most ambitious planetary mission in decades, was la ... more |
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 Russia to Test if US Radar Caused Failed Space Probe Russia says the failure of its space probe that was intended to travel to a moon of Mars could have been caused by radiation from U.S. radars. Space official Yuri Koptev said Tuesday he will h ... more | .. |
Another Russian Mars Mission Fails The ill-fated Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe reentered on Sunday at 1745 GMT (12:45 p.m. EST). Most of the surviving pieces reportedly fell into the Pacific Ocean. About two months ago Phobos ... more | .. |
  Eyeing resources, India, China, Brazil, Japan, other countries want a voice on Arctic Council With an eye on rapid changes in the resource-rich Arctic, countries like China, India and Brazil, which have no Arctic territories, are nonetheless knocking on the door of the increasingly influenti ... more | .. |
 ESA Coordinates International Satellite Reentry Campaign For Phobos-Grunt An international campaign to assess the imminent atmospheric reentry of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars craft is being coordinated by experts in ESA's Space Debris Office. Participants include NASA and R ... more |
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Ancient zircon data reveals tectonic origin of Earth's first continental crust
Autonomous sub explores unexplored trench depths to reveal critical mineral clues
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Russia was well aware of Phobos-Grunt mission risks Phobos-Grunt, a failed Russian sample mission to a Martian moon, was launched despite risks of which Russian scientists were well aware, the head of the Russian space agency said on Tuesday. P ... more | .. |
  Could Siberian volcanism have caused the Earth's largest extinction event? Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Although t ... more | .. |
 Russian river water unexpected culprit behind Arctic freshening 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 Arc ... more | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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Atomic 6 receives 2M Space Force award to advance next generation solar arrays
ESA and Neuraspace develop autonomous satellite navigation technologies
Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government | .. |
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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 |
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