Tag: Vladimir Putin
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Let’s unpack some questions about Russia’s role in North Korea’s rocket program
Russian President Vladimir Putin will reportedly visit North Korea later this month, and you can bet collaboration on missiles and space programs will be on the agenda. The bilateral summit in Pyongyang will follow a mysterious North Korean rocket launch on May 27, which ended in a fireball over the Yellow Sea. The fact that…
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Let’s unpack some questions about Russia’s role in North Korea’s rocket program
Russian President Vladimir Putin will reportedly visit North Korea later this month, and you can bet collaboration on missiles and space programs will be on the agenda. The bilateral summit in Pyongyang will follow a mysterious North Korean rocket launch on May 27, which ended in a fireball over the Yellow Sea. The fact that…
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The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader
On Saturday, the Russian space program lost the Luna 25 spacecraft, a relatively small vehicle that was due to land on the Moon this week. After a problem with the spacecraft’s propulsion system, instead of entering a low orbit around the Moon, it crashed into the lunar surface. The Russian mission to the Moon was…
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Putin blasts mismanagement at new Russian spaceport
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Soyuz launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Credit: Kremlin press service The first launch from Russia’s new cosmodrome in the country’s Far East will not occur until at least early 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced last week, in a widely-anticipated delay after reports of botched construction and corruption…
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Photos and video: Angara 5’s thunderous liftoff
Russia’s new Angara 5 rocket, the biggest Russian launcher since the end of the Cold War, made a pre-dawn blastoff from the wintry Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Tuesday on a successful first flight. The 18-story booster launched from Site 35 at Plesetsk, a facility about 500 miles north of Moscow near the Arctic Circle. Five kerosene-fueled…