Russia
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
The Russian Space Agency is presenting a request to the government to increase the level of funding to the agency. The request is interesting because of the information included, but also draws a line in the sand...
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
The Russian GLONASS navigation satellite constellation has high-level politcal and monetary support, with 4.7 billion dollars invested over the past decade. Russia is on pace to accelerate GLONASS satellite launches for full global coverage capacity by the...
Friday, March 11th, 2011
The center of Space Monitoring will start to operate at the Urals Federal University. Opening ceremony of the Center and putting into operation of the Earth remote sensing data reception station is to be held on March...
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Russia will launch two extra navigation satellites, after three crashed, to provide extra insurance for the success of its bid to create a rival to the U.S. system, a news agency reported on Wednesday. The GLONASS satellites that...
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
The mystery over the mid-air crashing of an Indian rocket in December continues with officials of the Indian space agency and experts from Russia, which supplied the cryogenic engine, differing on the possible cause of the rocket's...
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Russian EMERCOM plans to arrsange monitoring of the transport vehicles, including those used to transport hazardous cargo, with the help of GLONASS/GPS navigation system, EMERCOM PAO reports. The Ministry also intends to improve its accident response system through...
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Satellite radar imagery data was used to find the “Partner” fishing schooner lost in the Sea of Japan. According to Russian EMERCOM the area search operations for the “Partner” schooner that sent a distress call on January...
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
The 22nd satellite of Russia’s GLONASS global navigation satellite system has resumed functioning after routine maintenance. The Glonass-M satellite No. 714 was put back into operation at 8:30 a.m. on January 27, nine days later than planned, the...
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
The Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) told Itar-Tass, “The Zenit-2SB carrier rocket with Fregat-SB upper stage, that was blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome at 15:29, Moscow time, Thursday, at 00:28 MSK Friday successfully placed on the target...
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Russia will launch an oceanography satellite in March to keep track of a vast amount of data that will help improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday. "It will be a kind...
