Tag: Russia
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Station fliers set for return to Earth after 172-day mission
File photo of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Less than a week after winding up a successful spacewalk, outgoing space station commander Jeff Williams, America’s most experienced astronaut, will join two Russian cosmonauts for a fiery descent to Earth Tuesday evening to close out a 172-day mission covering…
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Live coverage: Soyuz capsule brings home station crew
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Russian SETI researchers say interesting radio signal was definitely not aliens
Detectors for the RATAN-600 telescope form a wide ring in this fisheye view. (Credit: SAO-RAS) Russian astronomers acknowledge that they picked up an “interesting radio signal” in the course of their search for alien transmissions, but that the signal was most probably a case of terrestrial interference. “It can be said with confidence that no…
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Space station crew could be cut to five
Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin is seen floating through the hatch way of the Russian segment aboard the International Space Station in July. Credit: NASA Russia may start sending just two of its cosmonauts to the International Space Station at a time, according to media reports and comments by a NASA manager, in a cost-cutting measure…
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Investigation into upper stage glitch delays next Proton launch
File photo of a Proton rocket launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Dec. 24, 2015. Credit: Roscosmos The launch of an EchoStar communications satellite to cover Europe has been delayed to October to allow Russian engineers to complete an inquiry into a glitch discovered during a Proton rocket flight in June, industry officials said. The…
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Russian spacecraft delivers fuel and supplies to space station
The Progress MS-03 spaceship approaches the space station Monday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A Progress refueling and resupply freighter linked up with the International Space Station’s Pirs docking compartment Monday, two days after blasting off from Kazakhstan with more than 2.6 tons of cargo, propellants and water. The automated spaceship completed a radar-guided docking at…
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Proton rocket transferred to launch pad with TV broadcasting satellite
A Russian Proton rocket rolled out to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday with a commercial communications satellite to broadcast high-definition television channels to millions of homes across Latin America. The three-stage Proton booster, topped by a Breeze M upper stage, emerged from a fueling station Sunday morning for a rail trip…
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Russian satellite launched to measure Earth’s size and shape
The Rockot launcher with the GEO-IK 2 geodesy satellite blasted off at 1400 GMT (10 a.m. EDT; 5 p.m. Moscow time) Saturday. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A Russian military spacecraft designed to map variations in Earth’s gravity field, rotation and tectonic movement reached orbit Sunday after a launch aboard a modified Soviet-era missile that…
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Rocketcam video released from Soyuz launch last month
The Russian space agency has posted an astounding video recorded by cameras fastened aboard a Soyuz rocket that took off from the country’s new Siberian spaceport last month. The imagery shows the Soyuz rocket lifting off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on April 28 and rolling on a course north-northwest from the partially-built spaceport in Russia’s…
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Russian authorities retrieve Soyuz booster wreckage in Siberia
One of the four Soyuz first stage boosters from last week’s first launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos Four liquid-fueled rocket boosters dropped in Siberia by a Soyuz launcher speeding into orbit last week from a new Russian cosmodrome have been located and recovered, Russia’s space agency said. The four boosters separated from the…