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ISS may become Martian flight simulatorMoscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 17, 2012 Russia's Roscosmos space agency has suggested expanding the length of future expeditions to the International Space Station from the current six months to a year and even longer to provide for the next step in space exploration - manned spaceflights beyond low-Earth orbit. Earlier, the countries involved in the ISS project agreed that the station could remain operational until 2020. Rocosmos believes that the remaining time should be used to simulate long-duration interplanetary flights in orbit a ... read more |
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 No future for Mars? The second half of February brings news on the proposed sum of NASA's budget for 2013 fiscal year. Even though President Obama hasn't made the request yet, it is already known that the planetary pro ... more | .. |
  Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites ESA and Eurockot have signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe's ... more | .. |
  Space tours to the Moon - why not? The first space tourist may be flying around the moon already five years from now if Space Adventures company has its way. The Virginia-based private space exploration company recently announced pla ... more | .. |
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  Russia to build six submarines annually from 2013 Russia will produce six submarines and one aircraft carrier annually starting 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Thursday. "By 2013, production capacity [at Russian shipyards] will allo ... more | .. |
  Russia May Spend Almost $12 bln on Glonass in 2012-2020 Russia may spend 346.5 billion rubles (almost $12 bln) on its Glonass satellite navigation system in 2012-2020, the Kommersant daily said on Wednesday. Glonass is Russia's answer to the U.S. G ... more | .. |
  A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside - this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an atom framework. With their large surf ... more | .. |
 Roscosmos Aims to Make Sea Launch Profitable Russian space agency Roscosmos and rocket and space-station hardware builder RSC Energia are working to restore commercial viability to the Sea Launch floating platform project, Roscosmos head 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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 Phobos Crash Test Dismisses U.S. Link Tests carried out by Russian space agency Roscosmos have ruled out the possibility a U.S. radar could be linked to the failure of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin said o ... more | .. |
  Is Russia's Space Program Viable? Russia is the only country ferrying astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station and back since NASA retired its aging fleet. But Russia's space agency has experienced a string of mishaps ... more | .. |
 Heavy Ions Killed Mars Probe Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday. The investigation found no faults with the spa ... more | .. |
  Manned Moon Shot Possible by 2020 A crewed mission to the moon is possible by 2020, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Thursday. "Today sc ... more |
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 Program Glitch Led to Russian Mars Probe Failure A government commission has blamed Russian programmers for the recent failure of Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, the Kommersant daily said on Tuesday citing a space industry source. The comm ... more | .. |
 Lavrov to Discuss Space, Nuclear Cooperation in Australia Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss bilateral cooperation in high-tech industries, including space and nuclear power, during his one-day working visit to Australia on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Engine Failure Behind Meridian Satellite Crash The crash of Russia's Meridian communication satellite late last year was caused by the destruction of one of the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket's engines, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Vladim ... more | .. |
 Russia May Run Repeat Mission to Phobos Russia will send another sample mission to the Martian moon Phobos if the European Space Agency (ESA) decides not to include Russia in its ExoMars program, the head of Russia's space agency said on ... 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
Europe launches first geostationary atmospheric sounder to boost extreme weather forecasts | .. |
The Phobos Crash Was Preprogrammed The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced the cause of the Phobos-Grunt space probe failure on Tuesday: it was a software malfunction in its onboard computer. But doubts still persist. Russia's s ... more | .. |
 Russia May Repeat Mars-500 Simulation on Space Station Russia may repeat the Mars-500 experiment simulating a crewed flight to the Red Planet on the International Space Station (ISS), the head of the Russian Space Federal Agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popo ... more | .. |
Space Radiation Blamed for Phobos-Grunt Crash Space radiation triggered a glitch in the on-board computer system causing the recent crash of Russia's Mars probe, Federal Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin said on Tuesday. "Two components ... more | .. |
  Russia to Start Own Search for Extrasolar Planets Russian astronomers are planning to start their own search for planets outside the Solar System using ground-based telescopes, head of the Institute for Space Research Lev Zelyony said on Wednesday. ... more |
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  Russia Must Be Ready for Space, Cyber Wars Russia must be ready for wars in space and in networks, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov said on Saturday. "As you see, warfare center has moved to aerosp ... more | .. |
 Ukraine, Russia to Launch 2 Dnepr Carrier Rockets in 2012 Ukraine and Russia will carry out two rocket launches under the joint Dnepr space program, head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine Yuri Alekseyev said on Friday. Moscow has recently decid ... more | .. |
 ISS Orbit Raised to Avoid Collision with Space Junk Specialists of Russia's Mission Control Center raised the orbit altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours of Sunday to prevent a possible collision with a Chinese satellit ... more | .. |
 Launch of Proton-M with Dutch Satellite Postponed The launch of a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with a Dutch telecommunication satellite onboard scheduled for Friday has been postponed indefinitely for technical reasons, Russian space agency Rosc ... 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 | .. |
Roscosmos Launches Cosmonaut Recruitment Drive Russia's state space agency Roscosmos has launched a cosmonaut selection competition, Roscosmos said on its web site on Friday. Candidates should apply with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training ... more | .. |
 NASA Says No to Probe Crash Theory Test NASA has refused to participate in an experiment designed to show if U.S. radars could have had an impact on Russia's troubled Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, the deputy head of the country's space agency, ... more | .. |
Russia Plans to Launch U.S. Satellite in February Russia is preparing a Proton-M carrier rocket for the launch of the U.S. Sirius FM-6 telecoms satellite, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. "The launch is tentatively scheduled f ... 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 |
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  Russian Space Freighter to be Buried in Pacific 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 spa ... more | .. |
 Russia Orbits Chibis Microsatellite Russia's Chibis (Peewit) microsatellite, which studies gamma-radiation generated by lightning in the atmosphere, was put into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS). It separated fro ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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