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December 25, 2012

Expedition 34 Spends Christmas in Space
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 24, 2012
Expedition 34 is the latest crew to spend Christmas aboard the International Space Station. The six-member crew, Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Chris Hadfield, Tom Marshburn, Roman Romanenko, Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, will spend a light-duty day relaxing, sharing a traditional meal, opening gifts and talking to family members. Ford sent holiday greetings to the world from the Destiny laboratory in early December. Hadfield and Marshburn offered their holiday wishes from Russia ... read more

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Energia Corp Lands $11 Mln Space Lab Contract Space rocket corporation Energia has won a 350 million ruble (about $11 million) contract to design the orbital laboratory Oka-T-MKS, the state procurements agency said Friday on its website. ... more		Russia and Kazakhstan to run Baikonur together Russia and Kazakhstan are reestablishing the intergovernmental commission on the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The commission will be headed by the deputy prime ministers of the two countries who will have t ... more		Russia to build new heavy ICBM by 2018 - Karakayev Russia will have built a new heavy liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile by late 2018, a missile that will prove largely superior to all of its predecessors, including the world's mos ... more
				Russia's Strategic Missile Forces global stability pillar Russia's Strategic Missile Forces turned 53 years old on Monday. In the Cold War era, they acted as a deterrent to preclude war. Today, they act as a counterweight to America's global domination pla ... more		Operation to "rescue" Yamal-402 a success Experts of the Thales Alenia Space company have completed a unique operation to "rescue" Yamal-402 satellite. On December 9 the Breeze-M upper stage of Russia's Proton heavy-lift rocket failed ... more

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Russia and Libya: will they restore military and technical cooperation? Moscow will resume cooperation with Tripoli on training military specialists for the Libyan army, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters on Thursday. Such a cooperation, whi ... more		Russia's arms export plan exceeded Russia set a record in arms export. The volume of contracts has exceeded 14 billion against the planned 13.2 billion dollars planned for this year, President Putin told a session dedicated to milita ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		Thales Makes Second Attempt to Adjust Yamal Orbit Specialists from Thales Alenia Space carried out on Tuesday a second out of four scheduled maneuvers to bring the Yamal-402 satellite into its designated orbit, Russia's Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) ... more
				NASA Awards Commercial Crew Certification Contracts NASA announced Dec. 10 the next step in its plan to launch American astronauts from U.S. soil, selecting three companies to conduct activities under contracts that will enable future certification o ... more		Ukraine Crushed in $1.1bn Fake Gas Deal Certainly the folks at Gazprom are having a good snicker, reveling in the mockery that has been made of what should have been a landmark Ukraine-Spain gas deal that would have loosened Russia's gas ... more

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Khrunichev Completes Nauka Space Station Module Russia's Khrunichev space company has completed assembly of the Nauka ("Science") multirole laboratory module for the International Space Station, Khrunichev said on Friday. The module will no ... more		What trends will take upper hand in space exploration? Space exploration in the future is linked to the creation of habitable bases on the moon. This opinion was expressed by head of Russia's leading research institute of the country's space agency Genn ... more		Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage		Russia Set to Launch Telecoms Satellite for Gazprom A Proton-M carrier rocket will lift off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Saturday to orbit a Yamal class telecoms satellite for Gazprom Space Systems (GSS), a telecommunications arm o ... more
				Putin Urges CIS Countries to Join Glonass Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) to join Glonass, Russia's global positioning system. "This system has the capability to p ... more		New Crew of ISS to Perform Two Spacewalks International Space Station Expedition 34, which is to take off from the Baikonur Space Center in December, will perform two spacewalks under the Russian and US space programs. "The tasks of t ... more

Commentary: Geopolitical malignancy

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China ships in disputed waters, first since Japan poll

Iran outwits sanctions, but feels pinch

Iran fighting 'smart economic war': Ahmadinejad

S. Korea says North 'rocket' could reach US

Mr Xi in Space

China plans manned space launch in 2013: state media

China to launch manned spacecraft

Hong Kong activist arrested 6 months after Hu protest

China 'V for Vendetta' broadcast amazes viewers

China gives hijackers death sentences

	Construction of new-generation radars will begin in Russia in 2013 In the first quarter of next year another new-generation radar "Voronezh" will be accepted for combat duty. First Vice-President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Captain 1st Rank Konst ... more		NATO controlling Turkish missile batteries Regular Voice of Russia contributor Rick Rozoff, the owner of Stop NATO International, once again made sense of the plans and activities of the NATO Alliance and gave his candid and frank views as t ... more		New ship will make Russia superpower on sea Russia intends to strengthen its security on sea with a heavy air-capable cruiser of a new generation. The cruiser is expected to be put to use in the Russian navy in 2020. The new aircraft ca ... more		Severodvinsk submarine launches first cruise missile at ground targets The multi-purpose nuclear submarine Severodvinsk passing the tests in the White Sea, has successfully completed the shooting of the most up-to-date cruise missile at ground targets, a source in the ... more

AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners

Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power

UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department

Russia scraps 70 percent of war chemicals		Russian Far East holds seismic hazards that could threaten Pacific Basin		Who will win the Temelin NPP bid?		Schriever squadrons assure safe passage in space domain		Russia as WTO Member Must Resort to Sophisticated Methods
Russian expert warns of possibility of large-scale war in Middle East		Soyuz ready for Friday launch of Pleiades 1B at Kourou		NASA, Roscosmos Assign Veteran Crew to Yearlong Space Station Mission		Roskosmos to design satellite for Brazil		S.Korean Rocket Set to Lift Off Thursday

New arms trade treaty: playing with fire

India to buy nearly 130 Su-30 fighter jets from Russia

Ukraine Presses Russia on Joint Space Launch Program

Russian Briz-M puts US satellite into orbit

Europe to invest 12 bln euros in a new space Odyssey

South Korea's rocket launch likely to take place Nov. 29

Roscosmos Requests Glonass Project Contractor Head's Dismissal

Boeing Statement Supporting House Vote on Russia PNTR

Russia Launches Dual-Purpose Telecoms Satellite

Russian Civil Satellite Links Lost After Cable Cut

Foreign experts praise Customs Union

Bulgaria and Europe depend on Russian energy exports

Internet, clean and bio-technology of significant importance for Russia

The end of the cheap hydrocarbons era

India to buy Russia's Konkurs-M, Invar guided missiles

Russia tries easier scheme of launching spaceships

Russia backs its claims for Arctic Shelf with evidence

Russia hails progress in arms reduction with US

Russian Proton Briz-M Launches Yamal Satellites Into Orbit

Russia and China to drive the world oil market

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