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Me and My SpacesuitHouston TX (SPX) Jul 17, 2012 Our Soyuz spacesuit is named after the Russian word for falcon: (sokol). It serves only one purpose, to keep us alive in the event of a cockpit depressurization. We venture into a place that is devoid of nearly all matter-a vacuum. This vacuum is as vast as space itself, and in a flash will remove our life-sustaining vapors with no more perturbation than an 18-wheeler smashing a jackrabbit on Route 66. And the effect on your body would be about the same. I have a symbiotic relationship with my spa ... read more |
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  Astrofein To Launch TET-1 Satellite Soyuz-Fregat July 22 Astrofein has announced the planned launch of TET-1 satellite, a satellite for the On-Orbit-Verification (OOV) program of the German space Agency DLR. Originally the launch was planned for 2011, but was delayed due to the problems on the launch's main payload, the Russian-British Canopus satellite. ... more | .. |
  Russian drones can see obstacles Russia may equip its drones with the so-called "technical vision" device that enables them to see and avoid obstacles, detect small-size objects and assess their potential danger. The system was cre ... more | .. |
  90 percent of Megatons to Megawatts complete Russia and the United States have completed 90% of the volume covered in an agreement on Russia processing highly enriched uranium to supply nuclear power plants in the U.S. according to press state ... more | .. |
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  Russian Space Firm Suspected of $17 Million Fraud Russian police have opened a criminal investigation into the alleged misuse of 565 million rubles ($17 million) of state funds set aside for the country's satellite navigation system. The Inte ... more | .. |
  Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The moon is estimated to be irregular in shape and 6 to 15 m ... more | .. |
  China Beats Russia on Space Launches For the first time in the history of space exploration, China beat Russia on the number of space launches in a given period of time, a rocket engine manufacturer said on Wednesday. China condu ... more | .. |
 Roscosmos to launch five satellites from Baikonur in July The Russian Federal Space Agency "Roscosmos" plans to launch five satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in July. The launch of a "Soyuz" with five satellites is scheduled for July 22. The pr ... more |
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PLD Space selected as leading contender for ESA sovereign launch initiative
UK opens competitive bid for GBP 75 million orbital cleanup mission
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  US Aerospace Firms in Talks With Russia's Energia Russia's Energia space corporation is holding talks with U.S. aerospace giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin over manufacture of docking sites and thermal protection equipment for space capsules for th ... more | .. |
  Russian Air Force to take part in USAF training exercises Despite a cooling off in relations between Russia and NATO countries, neither party has refused taking part in joint military programs. One such program is the regular aerial combat training exerci ... more | .. |
  S-500 - a miracle of a weapon It is planned that in 2013, the Russian army will receive new air defense missile batteries. This was recently announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Forces Major General Victor Bond ... more | .. |
  ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers returns to Earth ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers, together with his Russian Commander Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, has landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 08:14 GMT (10:14 CEST) in Soyuz TM ... more |
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  Hi-C to Investigate Activity in Solar Atmosphere NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is leading an international effort to develop and launch the High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, on a sounding rocket from the White Sand ... more | .. |
 Russia to Expand Commercial Space Services Russia will develop a special program to expand commercial space services and push the United States and EU out of that market, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. Russia need ... more | .. |
  RadioAstron space observatory completes its testing Russian orbital radio telescope RadioAstron has detected the first K-band (1.3 cm wavelength) fringes from a compact quasar. Thus, the telescope has successfully passed in-orbit testing of its inter ... more | .. |
  China expands its currency-swap geography A currency-swap agreement between the BRICS countries may pave the way for creating an alternative financial system, a host of Moscow-based experts said in separate interviews with the Voice of Russ ... more |
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UK thermal satellite firm wins ESA contract to deliver real time climate and security insights
Glacier retreat could drive a surge in volcanic eruptions worldwide
Beyond male dominance in primates new study redefines gender power roles | .. |
  Discovery of material with amazing properties Normally a material can be either magnetically or electrically polarized, but not both. Now researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have studied a material that is si ... more | .. |
 China's Space Program Accelerates The success of the first crewed expedition to China's first space laboratory represents a major step forward for China's space program. China has made steady advances in spaceflight since its first ... more | .. |
 ISS Resupply Important to Kennedy's Past and Future Humans are by nature consumers, regardless of where they might live and work. Supply runs to the International Space Station began as soon as assembly got under way. The first supplies were delivere ... more | .. |
  ISS to Build Up Meteorite Defenses Russian cosmonauts will conduct a space walk in August during which they will install additional anti-meteorite panels on the International Space Station (ISS), cosmonaut Yury Malanchenko said on Fr ... more |
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  Russian Cosmonauts Have 'Alien Instructions' The UN has developed detailed instructions in case of a first contact with aliens, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka said answering a question on Chinese TV. "The UN and representatives of Chi ... more | .. |
  Remote Siberian Lake Holds Clues to Arctic - and Antarctic - Climate Change Intense warm climate intervals - warmer than scientists thought possible - have occurred in the Arctic over the past 2.8 million years. That result comes from the first analyses of the longest sedim ... more | .. |
  Anniversary in space - five years of TerraSAR-X Five years ago on 15 June 2007, the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This marked the beginning of a new era in satellite remote sensing ... more | .. |
 Rocket Scientist Who 'Spied for China' Freed The former head of a Russian rocket technology firm who was jailed in 2007 for selling state secrets to China has been released on parole, Radio Liberty reported. Igor Reshetin, the former dir ... more |
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Ultrasound triggers nuclear decay anomaly hinting at flexible space-time
AI system accelerates aircraft concept design using language models
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  China, India challenge US monopoly on AMD, satellite defense Development of antimissile and anti-satellite systems is not the prerogative of the United States or Russia. Many other countries, however, like China, Israel and India are developing such systems. ... more | .. |
 Kazakhstan gives Russia the go-ahead for Baikonur launches Kazakhstan has given Russia permission to carry out launches from the Baikonur space center, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov said on Friday. Russia and Kazakhstan have failed so far to re ... more | .. |
 Russia resorts to small satellites These satellites can effectively solve tasks set before them in space, but it will be a lot cheaper to put them into orbit using light rockets. The geo-centric satellites need powerful data re ... more | .. |
 China's manned space mission "hits target": Russian expert The successful launching of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft on Saturday proves again China's grasp of essential space techniques and shows Chinese vision on how to develop the space program with steady st ... more |
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  Watching asteroids and comets to avoid impact Dangers posed by asteroids are among the issues discussed during the third international meeting of the top-level representatives in charge security currently underway in Saint-Petersburg. The repor ... more | .. |
 North-East Passage soon free from ice again The North-East Passage, the sea route along the North coast of Russia, is expected to be free of ice early again this summer. The forecast was made by sea ice physicists of the Alfred Wegener Instit ... more | .. |
 Satellite Sees Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the U.S. Coast Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean and into the U.S. and Canada. Images of data taken by the nation's newest Earth-observing satellite tracked aerosols from the fi ... more | .. |
  Russia May Join Mars Orbiter Project in Nov. - ESA Russian space agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) could sign a final agreement on Russia's participation in a Mars research project in November, ESA spokesman Rene Pischel said on F ... more |
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