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![]() Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 04, 2012 The International Space Station (ISS) will make a maneuver to a new orbit on Thursday to avoid debris from a Japanese satellite, a Russian Flight Control Center representative told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. "The maneuver is planned for 7.22 a.m. Moscow time," the source said, adding the danger from the fragments will be closest at 12.31 p.m. The size of the fragment cloud is not known. A Russian Zvezda service module will help make the maneuver, the source said. The decision to make the move ... read more |
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![]() ISS Partners Plan Yearlong Mission to Orbital Station Space agencies participating in the International Space Station project have agreed to launch an experimental yearlong endurance mission in 2015, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Tues ... more | .. |
![]() New window of opportunity for Russian companies planning to go public As Sberbank's listing last week proved to be a blockbuster success, the deal gave grounds for inflamed speculation about a potential IPO boom of Russian companies. The flurry of rumors around a numb ... more | .. |
![]() The Japanese insist on gas pipeline construction from Sakhalin to Hokkaido The Japanese have once again urged Russia to start the construction of a gas pipeline between the two states. Japan's JPDO Corporation, one of Gazprom's partners, says that laying a gas pipeline fro ... more | .. | ||
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![]() Russian Space research in 2012 Gennady Yevstafyev - retired Lieutenant General of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. Sir, thank you so much for joining us. The first question would be just how many countries are invo ... more | .. |
![]() Guard-2012 exercise to counter nuclear terrorism over in Moscow The Guard-2012 international exercise to counter nuclear terrorist threats has drawn to a close in Moscow. The manoeuvres were held as part of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism ... more | .. |
![]() Mobile missile complexes: Russia's nuclear shield future Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 02, 2012 The Teykovskaya Division of Russia's Strategic Missile Troops located in the Ivanovo region is the first division fully rearmed with the new Topol-M (SS-27) an ... more | .. |
![]() Russia, Belarus astronomers discover brightest comet Russia's amateur astronomer Artyom Novichonok and his Belarusian colleague Vitaly Nevsky have discovered a comet which might become the brightest this decade. The new celestial body was spotte ... more |
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![]() Major changes are coming to Russia's natural gas market Moscow (Voice of Russia) Sep 27, 2012 The Russian gas market will be undergoing a transformation over the course of the next 6-12 months. Renaissance Capital has released a new study on the industr ... more | .. |
![]() Russia expanding gas exports eastwards Russia is expanding gas exports to the Asian Pacific region. This year it is to supply 16 extra batches of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Japan as part of the Sakhalin 2 project. The enterpris ... more | .. |
![]() Mobile missile complexes: Russia's nuclear shield future The Teykovskaya Division of Russia's Strategic Missile Troops located in the Ivanovo region is the first division fully rearmed with the new Topol-M (SS-27) and RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic ... more | .. |
![]() Russia to send all-novice crew to ISS A crew of three all-novice members would be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) in October, Russia's Cosmonauts Training Center said Tuesday. The crew, consisting of Russian cosmonau ... more |
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![]() UK's Cubesat books a ride on Russian rocket UKube-1 - the UK's first cubesat mission - has 'booked' its journey into space on a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Kazakhstan is expected to take place in March 2 ... more | .. |
![]() Russia's First Private Satellite to Be Launched in 2013 Russia's first satellite manufactured and operated by a private firm will be launched next year, Dauria Aerospace head Mikhail Kokorich told RBK daily. The DX1-class 50-kg satellite will be de ... more | .. |
![]() Continental shelf exploration: are we ready for it? Continental shelf exploration could bring a breakthrough for Russia's energy sector, experts say. To prove their words, this year's St.Petersburg International Energy Forum for the first time had a ... more | .. |
![]() Russia to start research base on the Moon According to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Russian cosmonauts have gained great experience working in orbit and have conducted a large number of scientific experiments at the ISS. All ... more |
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![]() Failure Review Oversight Board Establishes Proton Return to Flight Schedule The Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) concluded the review of the Russian State Commission report on September 11 concerning the root cause of the Russian Federal Telkom-3/Express MD-2 mission f ... more | .. |
![]() Rosneft's Cooperates with Eni and Statoil in the Arctic After the government had given a preferential tax treatment to the companies engaged in offshore hydrocarbon field development foreign investors became more active in joining Russian projects. The g ... more | .. |
![]() Space formula of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 155 years ago, on September 17, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, was born in the Russian province. One of his famous sayings goes: "Earth is the crad ... more | .. |
![]() Europe's second polar-orbiting weather satellite is aloft The second Metop satellite was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, atop a Russian Soyuz launcher. Metop-B will ensure the continuity of the weather and atmospheric monitoring servi ... more |
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![]() ISS Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan A Soyuz reentry capsule with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew landed safely in Kazakhstan at 06:53 Moscow Time [0253 GMT], a spokesman for the Mission Control Center in th ... more | .. |
![]() Japanese Freighter Undocks From Space Station A Japanese cargo freighter undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, successfully ending its resupply mission, a spokesman for Russian Mission Control said. Kounotori 3 ... more | .. |
![]() Europe's ATV-3 Spacecraft to Readjust Space Station's Orbit Engines of the European Space Agency's ATV-3 spacecraft will be switched on to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on early Friday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Contro ... more | .. |
![]() Russia is facing strong competition from US shale gas expansion Russia's hegemony in the gas sector had flown under the radar until recently, as the country now enjoys the status of the world's largest exporter. The situation started to change over the last deca ... more |
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![]() Russia's space industry needs quality control - Medvedev Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has proposed to create a quality control system in Russia's space industry. "Quality control is needed at all stages of development, production and exploitation ... more | .. |
![]() Little Ice Age led to migration of island hopping arctic foxes The Little Ice Age allowed a new wave of arctic foxes to colonise Iceland, according to new research. A "bridge" of sea ice appeared during a dip in temperatures between 200 to 500 years ago allowin ... more | .. |
![]() Chandrayaan II may be delayed, says ISRO Chief India's quest for the moon, by the name of "Chandrayaan II," planned for 2013-14, may be delayed. Indicating this at a news conference organised after the successful launch of "PSLV-C21", the 100th ... more | .. |
![]() Roscosmos Space Agency Recalls Briz-M Upper Stage Batch The Russian space agency Roscosmos will recall the entire batch of Briz-M upper stages, one of which caused the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket to fail in August, the agency's chief Vladimir Pop ... more |
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![]() Russia Denies 'Systemic Crisis' in Space Industry Russia's space industry is not in crisis despite some local problems, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. "There is no systemic crisis in the Russian space industry; we have problem ... more | .. |
![]() HiSCORE project: Most extreme Universe near Lake Baikal An advanced new facility that specializes in catching elusive cosmic rays was initiated within the framework of a joint Russian-German-Italian project. A Tunca-Hi-SCORE observatory will be built nea ... 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 | .. |
![]() Russia Delays 2012 Military Launches After Satellite Failure 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 ... more |
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