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Global Security (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kazakhstan moved to play down a spat with Russia over a delay in a rocket launch from the Russian-leased space center in the Central Asian republic earlier this week, saying it was a result of a misunderstanding.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kazakhstan moved to play down a spat with Russia over a delay in a rocket launch from the Russian-leased space center in the Central Asian republic earlier this week, saying it was a result of a misunderstanding.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | yesterday
International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried the W7 satellite to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton. The Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:19 p.m. local time (9:19 a.m. EST, 3:19 p.m. in Paris, 14:19 GMT). After a 9 hour 12 minute mission, the Breeze M successfully released [...]
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Russia launched a Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a European Eutelsat W-7 satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan Tuesday, a Khrunichev Aerospace Center spokesman said. The carrier rocket blasted off at 05:19 p.m. Moscow time (1419 GMT), spokesman Alexander Bobrenev was quoted as saying by Itar-Tass news agency. Approximately nine hours and 12 minutes later, the W-7 telecommunications...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan - International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, successfully carried the W7 satellite to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton. The Proton vehicle lifted of
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, successfully carried the W7 satellite to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton. The Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:19 p.m. local time (9:19 a.m. EST, 3:19 p.m. in Paris, 14:19...
LYRA and KAG (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
NASA TV to Broadcast Space Station Crew Soyuz Landing Events HOUSTON -- NASA Television will air the events surrounding the landing of three International Space Station crew members who will return to Earth Dec. 1. The space travelers have lived and worked aboard the space station for the past six months. NASA TV coverage will include the broadcast of farewells aboard the orbiting laboratory, hatch...
Spacefellowship (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
(Sea Launch) – Preparations are moving forward at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan for the fourth Land Launch mission, the first of a satellite for Intelsat, Ltd., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services. Liftoff on November 29 is planned at 1:00 pm PT (21:00 GMT), for the Intelsat 15 satellite, at the [...]
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A Proton-M carrier rocket with the European Eutelsat W7 satellite will be launched on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federal Space Agency said.
Space Ref (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
ESA's CryoSat ice mission has completed its Flight Acceptance Review, confirming that all the mission components are ready for launch, which is planned for 25 February 2010 from Baikonur.
Space Spin (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
ESA's ice mission CryoSat has completed its Flight Acceptance Review, confirming that all the components that make up the mission are ready for launch, which is planned for 25 February 2010 from Baikonur. This formal review is the major part of the process of ensuring that all of the parts of the mission are in place. It is focussed on the readiness of the satellite and the preparation of the launch...
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
In 1974 engineers of the Soviet Union began work on the Buran ("Blizzard") project, which was a response to NASA's Space Shuttle programme. The Russian engineers favoured a design for a lighter reusable spacecraft where the entire body of the craft created lift, but the military leadership demanded that they copy the delta-wing design of the American Shuttle. Six years later, construction...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Russia has started to develop a new reusable manned spacecraft, a space official said Wednesday. Igor Khamits, chief of Russian Rocket and Space Corporation Energia's research and technological design center, told reporters in the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan that the spacecraft was under initial design while drawing on experiences from the "Soyuz" manned spacecraft. Based on initial...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Russia launched a Progress M-MIM2 cargo ship from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, the Mission Control Center outside Moscow said. The MIM2 scientific module, the fourth module that Russia has launched, will be used in experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). Local TV showed that a Soyuz-U carrier rocket with the spaceship atop blasted off at 05:22 p.m. Moscow time (1422...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Russia’s space agency on Tuesday launched a new module with plans to revive its efforts to add to the International Space Station.The Poisk ("Quest") Mini-Research Module-2 represents the country’s first mission to resume construction on the ISS after almost a decade of economic problems that kept the space agency from any development on the orbiting outpost.The MIM-2 module launched...
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