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Russia Launches Space Freighter to Orbital StationMoscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 02, 2012 Russia's Progress class space freighter automatically docked with the International Space Station just six hours after blasting off from Earth, a spokesman for the Mission Control said on Thursday. A Soyuz-U rocket carrying the Progress-M-16M cargo spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan at 11:35 p.m. Moscow time (19:35 GMT). The spacecraft docked with the ISS on the fourth revolution around Earth and six minutes ahead of the scheduled time that was set at 05:24 a. ... read more |
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  Russian Space Freighter Departs From ISS Russian Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft undocked early on Tuesday from the International Space Station (ISS) to depart on a three-week scientific mission before being buried in the Pacific. "T ... more | .. |
  Russia Launches Cluster of Four Satellites Russia's Space Forces launched early on Saturday a Rokot carrier rocket with a Cosmos class military satellite and three civilian satellites on board, spokesman Col. Alexey Zolotukhin said. The Roko ... more | .. |
  Checkout begins with the Fregat upper stage for Arianespace's third Soyuz mission from French Guiana The Fregat upper stage for Arianespace's third Soyuz mission from French Guiana is now undergoing pre-launch verifications in preparation for a flight in the second half of 2012 that will carry anot ... more | .. |
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 Another Progress Freighter Re-Docking Attempt Set for July 29 Another attempt to re-dock the Russian Progress M-15M space freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) will be made on Sunday, July 29, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Center sai ... more | .. |
  Russia starts building Moon spaceship, eyes Lunar base Russia has started building a spacecraft for manned Lunar missions with the first test scheduled in 2015, the project developer said Thursday. "The work has already started. The unmanned tests are s ... more | .. |
  German TET-1 small satellite launched On 22 July 2012 at 08:41:39 CEST, the first small German satellite in the 'On-Orbit-Verification' (OOV) programme was carried into orbit from the Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan by a Russian Soyu ... more | .. |
 Russia Launches Soyuz-FG Rocket with Five Satellites Russia's Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with a group of five satellites on board has blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Sun ... more |
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Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government
Sceye secures SoftBank backing to launch HAPS connectivity services in Japan
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 Russian space agency considers Jupiter mission The European Space Agency (ESA) is starting preparations for a mission to Jupiter. The Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) project, approved for implementation in 2022, is to explore the giant planet ... more | .. |
  Russia's ground forces to get Iskander-M systems The Iskander-M tactical missile system that surpasses similar foreign weapons should become the basis of Russia's ground forces, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a conference dedicated ... more | .. |
  ExoMars program gathers strength The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) are expected to sign an agreement on the implementation of the second stage of the ExoMars program in the fall of 2012. ... more | .. |
 Russian Space Lab Launch Delayed Again The launch of Russia's "Nauka" (Science) multirole laboratory module (MLM) for the International Space Station has been set back from the end of this year to the end of next year due to technologica ... more |
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  Russia and Italy to jointly develop patrol aircraft Russian and Italian engineers will jointly develop a patrol aircraft with extraordinary technical characteristics. Under the project, intellectual systems of communication, navigation and identifica ... more | .. |
  US Lags in Ninth Place on Energy Efficiency Among Top 12 Global Economies The United Kingdom comes in first in a new energy efficiency ranking of the world's major economies, followed closely by Germany, Japan, and Italy, according to the first-ever International Energy E ... more | .. |
  Me and My Spacesuit 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 devo ... 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 |
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Successful liftoff delivers Sentinel4 on MTG satellite to enhance atmospheric forecasting
Study challenges climate change's link to our wild winter jet stream
Consortium plans global shift toward net negative carbon economy | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
  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 |
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Growing evidence for evolving Dark Energy could inspire a new model of the Universe
UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases
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  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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
  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 |
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