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ISS Orbit Adjusted for DockingMoscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 02, 2012 The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised by 2.1 kilometers (1.3 miles) on Wednesday to ensure the best conditions for the docking of Russia's Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft with the station, Russian Mission Control spokeswoman said. The maneuver will be conducted using the two main engines of the Russian Zvezda Service Module, the spokeswoman said. It will begin at 2.12 pm Moscow time (10:12 GMT) and last about 76 seconds, giving the ISS an additional boost of 1.2 meters ... read more |
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  Russia to Launch 100 Military Satellites in Next Decade Russia is planning to launch at least 100 military satellites in the next 10 years to boost its reconnaissance and missile detection capabilities, head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Vladimir Pop ... more | .. |
  Russia to Launch 2 Glonass Satellites in 2012 Russia will launch two Glonass satellites in 2012 to expand its global satellite navigation network in orbit, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday. Glonass is Russia's ... more | .. |
  Cosmonaut Testing at Star City Deceptively Simple So you want to be a cosmonaut? Now is your chance, but prepare to be tested like one. The countdown is on for Russia's first ever open cosmonaut recruitment drive, and while organizers wait fo ... more | .. |
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  Astrium's Swarm satellite fleet tested and ready for space mission The three Astrium built satellites of the Swarm constellation have completed a series of environmental tests designed to demonstrate their fitness for space flight. The purpose of the Swarm mission ... more | .. |
  Putin pledges 400 ICBMs for Russia in 10 years Russia's armed forces will receive over 400 modern intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), more than 100 military spacecraft and over 2,300 new tanks within the next 10 years, Prime Minister an ... more | .. |
 Bulava missile dangerous for Russia: Experts Russian experts have questioned how wise it was to adopt the troubled Bulava intercontinental missile for service, suggesting it would cause more security problems than it would solve. Accordi ... more | .. |
 Swarm constellation heads north The three satellites that make up ESA's Swarm magnetic field mission were unvieled last week to the media. Following a demanding testing programme, the satellites were displayed in the cleanroom bef ... more |
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London, Paris tighten nuclear bond over US, Russia concerns
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  Breaking Through the Ice at Lake Vostok Europa on Earth - that's just what Antarctica's deep and dark Lake Vostok could be. A body of water the size of Lake Ontario, it lies beneath more than two miles of ice yet its waters are warm enoug ... more | .. |
  ISS may become Martian flight simulator 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 n ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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Atomic 6 receives 2M Space Force award to advance next generation solar arrays
ESA and Neuraspace develop autonomous satellite navigation technologies
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 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 | .. |
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 |
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  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 | .. |
  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 |
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