Russia to spend $21 bn on space industry
September 11th, 2012 - 2:42 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia will spend 670 billion rubles ($21 billion) to develop its space industry in the coming years, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Monday."This is big ... Read more...
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Russia delays 2012 military launches
September 4th, 2012 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 4 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia will delay launches of military spacecraft this year because of a failed satellite launch last month, a top defence official said Tuesday.The delays will ... Read more...
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Signal received from missing Indonesian satellite
August 13th, 2012 - 7:51 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 13 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Contact has been made with an Indonesian telecommunications satellite which went missing following a failed launch last week, a Russian rocket firm said Monday.The Telkom ... Read more...
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Russia launches Proton-M rocket with Dutch telesat
July 10th, 2012 - 5:45 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 10 (IANS) Russia conducted the launch of a Proton-M rocket with a telecommunications satellite late Monday.According to Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos, the Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying ... Read more...
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Russia develops ammonia rocket engine
May 6th, 2012 - 10:30 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A leading Russian manufacturer of equipment for power industries has started developing a new rocket engine that could reduce the cost of rocket launches and ... Read more...
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Indian mega satellite spins in geo transfer orbit (Second Lead)
May 21st, 2011 - 8:23 am ICT by IANS
Bangalore, May 21 (IANS) India's mega geostationary satellite GSAT-8 was spinning in an elliptical geo-synchronous transfer orbit early Saturday after an Ariane-V rocket successfully lifted it off the Kourou ... Read more...
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India’s mega satellite GSAT-8 put into transfer orbit (Lead)
May 21st, 2011 - 5:13 am ICT by IANS
Bangalore, May 21 (IANS) India's mega geo-stationary satellite GSAT-8 was successfully deployed in an elliptical geo-synchronous transfer orbit early Saturday by the Ariane-VA-202 rocket, an official of the Indian ... Read more...
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Russia loses contact with newly-launched satellite
February 2nd, 2011 - 6:58 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Feb 2 (IANS) The Russian Space Forces - the wing of the armed forces responsible for military space operations - has lost contact with a newly launched military satellite and is ... Read more...
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Three Russian Glonass satellites crash into Pacific Ocean
December 6th, 2010 - 7:52 pm ICT by ANI
Moscow, Dec 6 (ANI): Three Russian Glonass-M satellites, which were launched on Saturday, have reportedly crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaii Islands after falling off course.Xinhua quoted the RIA Novosti ... Read more...
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India sucessfully tests nuclear-capable Agni-I missile
November 25th, 2010 - 2:24 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Nov 25 (IANS) India Thursday successfully fired its nuclear capable surface-to-surface Agni-I missile from a test range in Orissa, a defence official said.
The missile, which can strike targets 700 km away, ... Read more...
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China leads in outer space pollution: Russian space agency
July 30th, 2010 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 30 (IANS/RIA Novosti) China has topped the list of the world's major polluters of the near-Earth space environment, followed by the US and Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos ... Read more...
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Lack of fuel supply led to GSLV-D3 failure: Expert Committee
July 9th, 2010 - 8:28 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, July 9 (IANS) Seizure of rotor or rupture of the turbine casing could be the probable cause for the failure of the indigenous cryogenic engine that led the Geosynchronous Satellite ... Read more...
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PSLV launch put off due to technical glitch
April 29th, 2010 - 7:01 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, April 29 (IANS) India has put off the launch of an advanced remote sensing satellite, fixed for May 9, after a technical glitch in its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle was ... Read more...
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India’s ambitious GSLV-D3 launch fails
April 15th, 2010 - 7:18 pm ICT by ANI
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Apr 15 (ANI): India's ambitious launch of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D3) failed here on Thursday.The GSLV D3 rocket powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine was blasted ... Read more...
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India to launch advanced communication satellite April 15 (Second Lead)
April 7th, 2010 - 10:28 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, April 7 (IANS) India will launch an advanced geostationary communication satellite April 15, using for the first time an indigenously built cryogenic engine in a heavier rocket and thus join ... Read more...
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India set to launch heavy communication satellite April 15 (Lead)
April 7th, 2010 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, April 7 (IANS) India is all ready to launch its heavy geostationary communication satellite April 15 using the indigenously built cryogenic engine and thus join the elite space club of ... Read more...
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Growing space debris poses threat to spacecrafts
March 9th, 2010 - 11:21 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, March 9 (IANS) About 100 space debris experts who are taking part in the three-day meet of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination (IADC) Committee here Tuesday expressed concern in the ... Read more...
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NASA’s Ares I-X rocket successfully completes flight test
October 29th, 2009 - 12:51 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 29 (ANI): NASA's Ares I-X test rocket has successfully completed its flight test, by lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 28th.The test flight lasted about ... Read more...
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India set to join exclusive cryogenic club
October 27th, 2009 - 2:31 pm ICT by IANS
By Venkatachari Jagannathan
Chennai, Oct 27 (IANS) After its maiden moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to cross another milestone in December - take India into the exclusive ... Read more...
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Successful firing of cryogenic engine a challenge for new ISRO chief
October 25th, 2009 - 12:03 pm ICT by IANS
By Fakir Balaji
Bangalore, Oct 25 (IANS) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman-designate K. Radhakrishnan, who takes over Oct 31, has said his first priority would be to see that the indigenously ... Read more...
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First image of the lunar plume released
October 18th, 2009 - 4:46 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 18 (ANI): A week after NASA had hit the moon as part of its LCROSS mission, the first image of the lunar material that erupted as a result has ... Read more...
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NASA set to bomb the moon today
October 9th, 2009 - 3:56 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Moffett Field, Oct 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) NASA has launched a special moon-specific mission called Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) that will send a missile that will literally crash ("bomb") into ... Read more...
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ISRO preparing for GSAT 4 launch in two months
September 19th, 2009 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
By Venkatachari Jagannathan
Chennai, Sep 19 (IANS) While the preparations for launch of India's ocean monitoring satellite Oceansat 2 and six other nano satellites Sep 23 is on, the Indian Space Research ... Read more...
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NASA’s Moon mission successfully completes lunar maneuver
June 24th, 2009 - 12:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 24 (ANI): NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, successfully completed its most significant early mission milestone on June 23 with a lunar swingby and calibration of its ... Read more...
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America returns to the Moon with Atlas V rocket
June 19th, 2009 - 1:12 pm ICT by John Le Fevre
The flawless launch of an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida has signaled America’s return to the Moon.Powered by twin liquid-fueled engines and two solid-fueled boosters, ... Read more...
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Russian rocket puts European satellite into orbit
March 18th, 2009 - 1:16 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, March 17 (RIA Novosti) A Russian Rockot launch vehicle successfully put into orbit Tuesday a European satellite, which will measure and map the Earth's gravitational field, a spokesman for Russia's Space ... Read more...
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NASA takes major step toward building next generation launch vehicle
September 11th, 2008 - 3:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 11 (ANI): NASA has taken a major step toward building the nations next generation launch vehicle with the successful completion of the Ares I rocket preliminary design review.Starting in ... Read more...
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NASA spacecraft to search for water on the Moon
June 25th, 2008 - 4:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 25 (ANI): Engineering teams are conducting final checkouts of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, that will take a significant step forward in the search ... Read more...
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Russia to launch its first weather satellite
June 11th, 2008 - 11:04 pm ICT by IANS
RIA Novosti
Moscow, June 11 (RIA Novosti) Russia is set to launch its first weather satellite, Meteor-M1, in the fourth quarter of 2008, the satellite's manufacturer said Wednesday. Russia currently has no weather ... Read more...
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New European ’space truck’ launched into orbit
March 9th, 2008 - 7:09 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Bremen (Germany) March 9 (DPA) Europe's first-ever space transporter settled into orbit Sunday after a successful launch from the jungle of South America. The orbital cargo ship blasted aloft from the Kourou ... Read more...
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