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Russia Delays 2012 Military Launches After Satellite FailureMoscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 05, 2012 Russia will delay launches of military spacecraft this year because of a failed satellite launch last month, a top defense official said on Tuesday. The delays will be "insignificant," Russian Space Forces Commander Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said. Two telecommunictaions satellites were lost on August 7 due to a failure in the Russian Proton-M rocket's upper stage. Ostapenko said the launches will be put on hold until the findings of a government probe into the incident are fully looked i ... read more |
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  Russia's unique economic position in the Arctic Historically, the Arctic Region has been part and parcel of the Russian economy. Due to the decades-long support from the Russian government, it boasts a powerful industrial infrastructure and the s ... more | .. |
  SES inks capacity deal with Romantis for Russia and Central Asia SES has signed a capacity agreement with Romantis, a global provider of satellite capacity and networking equipment, to support the growing connectivity needs across Russia and Central Asia. R ... more | .. |
 Space Center Chief Loses Job over Failed Launches Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Vladimir Nesterov as general director of the Khrunichev Space Center, the state press service reported on Monday. The Russian space industry has ... more | .. |
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  Russia to create new ICBM by 2018 Russia is due to create a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by 2018, Strategic Missile Forces commander Sergei Karakayev said on Monday. "Construction of the missile is ongoing," ... more | .. |
  Environmental technologies used in Russia For the first time in history Russia's Pavilion won the prize of the jury at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, where Russia presented a project dedicated to science towns, incl ... more | .. |
  Remote Sensing Satellite Sends First Earth Imagery Russia's remote sensing satellite Canopus-B, launched a month ago, has taken its first photos of the earth's surface, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. The imagery, which is ... more | .. |
 Suomi NPP Captures Smoke Plume Images from Russian and African Fires Powerful fires currently scorching parts of Russia and Africa sent up plumes of smoke into the atmosphere, images captured on Aug. 2, 2012, by the nation's newest Earth-observing satellite, Suomi Na ... more |
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China says no ambition to build South Pacific military base
US, Japan, India, Australia pledge mineral cooperation on China jitters
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 Russia Extends U.S. Agreement on Tax-Free Space Goods Russia's Cabinet of Ministers has instructed the Foreign Ministry to extend for an additional five years an agreement with the U.S. government on the tax-free delivery to and export of goods and tec ... more | .. |
  Russian Companies Design Space Tour Plane Russia's NPO Molniya design bureau and the Myasischev Experimental Factory (EMZ) are designing a space-plane for sub-orbital "space tourism" and small satellite launch flights, according to a compan ... more | .. |
  Navy as an instrument of big strategy Joint Russian-US-Norwegian Northern Eagle-2012 exercises have ended in the Barents Sea. This kind of joint Russia-NATO exercises have become regular. What does Moscow's animated military cooperation ... more | .. |
  Russia's moonshot hope 'not a dream' Russia has proposed a joint project with Kazakhstan and Ukraine to build a heavy rocket capable of launching manned missions to the Moon. It believes this project could be accomplished within three ... more |
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 US-China missile race The United States says it's planning to build new missile defence in Asia. White House officials say early warning radar systems could be placed on a remote Japanese island and possibly in the Phili ... more | .. |
  Drones, UAV: what is better? Recently Russia has celebrated 100th anniversary of establishing of Russian air force. While celebrating 100th anniversary I have noticed a very important statement which was made by our President M ... more | .. |
  US pushes for a new phase of arms race After Russia refused to support the UN Security Council resolution on Syria the US Congress forbade Pentagon to deal with Russia's arms export monopoly Rosoboronexport until Moscow stops supplying w ... more | .. |
  Russian scientists one step from creating AI? Russian scientists have created a computer analogue of a human mind, the possibilities of which lag behind that of a human brain only by 0.8%. At an international contest of similar computer program ... more |
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Deep-sea mining negotiators to meet under Trump shadow
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  Russian Arctic resources The Arctic Region is often referred to as the "resource depository" of the future. Deemed as a strategically important region, the Arctic boasts a variety of natural riches, including minerals, oil ... more | .. |
  Manned interplanetary missions on NASA's agenda After dropping plans to return to the Moon, the American space agency NASA has set its sights on Mars. But before venturing there, it is going to test out its latest interplanetary technologies duri ... more | .. |
 Russian Women Could Return to Space Russian women can be included into the country's cosmonauts team if they successfully complete all selection stages, Sergei Krikalev, head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, said on Tues ... more | .. |
 Russia to boost investment in premium diesel production two-fold next year Returning to post-Soviet level of crude production this year, Russia now strives to secure its position on the European energy market. The government is pinning its hopes on exports of high-quality ... more |
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  Readying the "boost" for Galileo satellites on Arianespace's next Soyuz mission at the Space The Fregat upper stage for Arianespace's upcoming Soyuz launch from French Guiana has been moved to the Spaceport's S3B facility, where it will be fueled and integrated with the mission's two Galile ... more | .. |
 Next generation of military aircraft will be unmanned The role of unmanned aerial vehicles in future will increase, Russian Air Force Commander-in-chief Maj. Gen. Viktor Bondarev told Interfax. "The trends for weapons of armed struggle, including comba ... more | .. |
 Sarah Brightman In Talks Over Space Trip British singer Sarah Brightman is in talks with the space tourism firm Space Adventures to become the world's eighth space tourist, a senior Russian space official said on Wednesday. "I think that i ... more | .. |
 Russia to Build New Space Plant A space satellite manufacturing plant will be built in the town of Shchyolkovo, just outside the Russian capital, Moscow Region Governor Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday. "It will be a new prod ... more |
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UK lab promises air-con revolution without polluting gases
BRICS nations to denounce Trump tariffs
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  Russia's ISS Crew Members Complete Spacewalk Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Yury Malenchenko completed a six-hour spacewalk having carried out all planned maintenance tasks on the International Space Station (ISS). It was the fir ... more | .. |
 S-400s to protect APEC summit Russia is deploying a regiment of its new-generation S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems in the far-eastern city of Nakhodka, not far from Vladivostok. The production of S-400s is gaining pace. With ... more | .. |
  WiggleZ confirms the Big Picture of the Universe We know that stars group together to form galaxies, galaxies clump to make clusters and clusters gather to create structures known as superclusters. At what scale though, if at all, does this Russia ... more | .. |
Cosmonauts Begin First Expedition 32 Spacewalk Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko began the first spacewalk of the Expedition 32 mission at 11:37 a.m. EDT Monday. The primary task during the 6.5-ho ... more |
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  Russian Mars Water Sniffer Goes Online A Russian neutron detector on board NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, designed to search for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path, was activated on Frida ... more | .. |
 Russian Booster Rocket Lifts US Satellite in Seaborne Launch A Russian booster rocket has blasted off from the Odyssey launch pad in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Sea Launch project to deliver a U.S. satellite into orbit, a spokesman for Energiya space cor ... more | .. |
 Russian Space Official Resigns After Satellite Failure The head of a top Russian rocket company handed in his notice on Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reprimanded space officials over a failed satellite launch last month, a govern ... more | .. |
 Space problems call for systemic solutions Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has given Russia's Roscosmos space agency and the government a month to submit proposals on how to improve the agency's work following a string of latest launch failur ... more |
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