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Mike E Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:58 pm

State Commission approves crewmembers for ISS-41/42 long-term expedition to ISS

BAIKONUR, September 24. /ITAR-TASS/. The State Commission on Wednesday approved crewmembers for the Expedition 41/42 to the International Space Station (ISS) on September 26.
The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft will deliver crewmembers of the next ISS long-term expedition, including a Russian woman cosmonaut for the first time in the last 20 years, to the ISS.
“The Souyuz TMA-14M spacecraft will carry Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyayev and Yelena Serova, and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore. The backup crew is made of Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko, as well as American astronaut Scott Kelly,” one of the crewmembers told Itar-Tass.
The ISS crew will stay aboard the station for 168 days. The crewmembers are to handle three Russian resupply spacecraft Progress and a European ATV vehicle. Samokutyayev, together with the ISS crew member Maxim Surayev who is currently aboard the station, will take a spacewalk.

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Russian astronomers spot second planet in Alpha Centauri system

As of now, astronomers have discovered 1,791 exoplanets in 110 planetary systems outside our Solar System

ST. PETERSBURG, September 24. /ITAR-TASS/. St. Petersburg astronomers have spotted one more planet circling a star in the Alpha Centauri system just 4.36 light-years away from the Solar System. The discovery was announced on Wednesday at a scientific conference Journees-2014 held at the Pulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg. The new plant cannot be seen even though a telescope - astronomers calculated its approximate location by mathematical methods. It is located outside the so-called habitable zone, or the orbital region around a star in which an Earth-like planet can possess liquid water on its surface and possibly support life. “We believe that this planet may be located at a distance of 80 astronomical units /a unit of length, roughly the distance from the Earth to the Sun, which is 150 million kilometers/ and is orbiting around the centre of the binary star system Alpha Centauri AB with an orbital period of about 100 years,” Ivan Shevchenko, the head of the laboratory of planets and small bodies dynamics at the Pulkovo Observatory, told ITAR-TASS. It is a second known planet in the Alpha Centauri system. The first one was found in 2012 near Alpha Centauri B by the Harps instrument at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla facility in Chile. As of now, astronomers have discovered 1,791 exoplanets in 110 planetary systems outside our Solar System. Most of exoplanets were detected by the so-called transit method, which is based on the observation of a star's small drop in brightness, that occurs when the orbit of one of the star's planets passes /”transits”/ in front of the star, Shevchenko said, adding that this method was suggested by Otto Struve /1897-1963/, one of the most outstanding astronomers of the 20th century. Along with the transit method, there are other techniques that are traditionally used to detect extrasolar planets, including the radial velocity method and the astrometry method. The latter was first used by famous French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, who is known for his prediction of the existence of the then unknown planet Neptune in 1846.

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Mike E Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:56 am

Can't believe I haven't posted this already... Embarassed

(I'd typically would put this article in the news section, but I think this one deserves "better".)

Russia to allocate $8.2 billion for ISS development up to 2025 — deputy PM

Dmitry Rogozin clarified that the spacecraft to be maintained at the International Space Station was intended for experiments carried out in the conditions of deep vacuum

STAR CITY (Moscow region), September 23. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia plans to allocate 321 billion rubles ($8.2 billion) for developing the International Space Station (ISS) up to 2025, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday. “The 2016-2025 draft of the target federal program provides for allocating 321 billion rubles for the ISS development and operation, including the creation of new modules for unmanned spacecraft,” Rogozin said during a visit to a cosmonaut training center. “Russia channels considerable funds into development of this area of Russian space science. We are now thinking of research projects designed to explore outer space, as well as new projects in manned cosmonautics,” Rogozin said. Rogozin clarified that the spacecraft to be maintained at the International Space Station (ISS) was intended for experiments carried out in the conditions of deep vacuum. “All space experiments onboard the International Space Station are being conducted under Russia’s existing long-term program of applied scientific research,” Rogozin said. These experiments include applied scientific research; the study of physical and chemical processes; materials in space conditions; the study of Earth from outer space; man in space; space biology; biotechnologies and space exploration technologies.

- Sooooooo.... This one comes as a shocker to myself! Shocked

The planned obsolescence date of the ISS is said to be 2020, with 2028 being a "best case scenario".... With OPSEK and an ambitious space program coming up, why would they put that much money into the already "overused" ISS? That money is enough to fund the entire super-heavy program, plus a couple A5 launches! I understand that they want to do more experiments up there, but that extra money could go into speeding up the assembly of OPSEK, allowing Russia to complete the same experiments while being 100% space independent! Now that the US is officially going to use their own lifters and spacecraft, Russia's dominance over the ISS project will begin to shrink... Might as well jump ship and reassemble the (going to be used on OPSEK) Russian craft that are part of the ISS! - It would further slow down the US ISS program, is that is desirable... Anyway, if they reuse some sections of the ISS, Russia can then launch the Node Module in 2016 and start assembly! It would be in operation by the scheduled obsolescence of the ISS, wouldn't be expensive (they'd probably save money, as the ISS program isn't cheap), and as mentioned before, would be a Russia-only project. OPSEK should also be able to accommodate any Russian sections/crafts that were planned for the ISS as well.... IMHO, there is no downside to doing this, and no upsides in continuing the ISS program! - Get it together Roscosmos!

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Mike E Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:25 pm

Soyuz spaceship with international crew on board to lift off overnight from Sept 25 to 26

The participation of Russian woman cosmonaut Yelena Serova in the space expedition will be a notable feature of the flight

BAIKONUR, September 25. /ITAR-TASS/. A Soyuz TMA-14M manned spaceship with an international crew of a long-duration expedition 41-42 on board is to be launched on the night from September 25 to 26 from Baikonur spaceport for a journey to the International Space Station /ISS/. A spaceport official told ITAR-TASS, "The liftoff of the carrier rocket Soyuz-FG with the spaceship Soyuz TMA-14M from Baikonur's Gagarin Site 1 is scheduled for 20:25 GMT".

The participation of Russian woman cosmonaut Yelena Serova in the space expedition will be a notable feature of the flight. She will be the first Russian space woman to set out on a long space flight after the elapse of 20 years. Her predecessor, Yelena Kondakova, made a five-month orbital flight aboard the Mir space station in 1994.

The spaceship will be piloted by Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyayev. He and his crew mates Yelena Serova and American astronaut Barry Wilmore when reaching the ISS will join Maksim Surayev, Gregory Wiseman, and Alexander Gerst, who have been workign aboard the ISS since May this year. The new crew will work in orbit for 169 days.
The spaceship TMA-14M is to dock with the ISS after a shortened, six-hour, flight at 02:25 GMT on September 26, mooring at the Russian module Poisk /quest/ /or MIM-2 of the orbital station. One of the advantages of the shortened-flight diagram is that the crew do not have to get adapted to zero gravity in the closed space of the spaceship Soyuz where, besides, it is rather cold.
The condition of weightlessness begins to tell on the human organism in about five hours' time /of the flight/, that is, the cosmonauts will be adapting themselves to zero gravity when aboard the ISS in comfortable conditions. The first manned space flight according to the shortened diagram /the spaceship makes only four orbital revolutions/ was made by the crew of the Soyuz TMA-08M spaceship in March 2013.

When in orbit, the new crew are to perform an extensive programme for scientific studies and applied research and experiments and receive three Russian resupply Progress spacecraft and a European ATV space vehicle. Besides, Samokutyayev together with Maksim Surayev is to take a spacewalk.

The safety of the spaceship along the entire flight path will be ensured by military and civilian aircraft and helicopters as well as a ship of the search-and-rescue service of the Russian Navy in the event of an emergency landing of the Soyuz TMA-14M, said a Federal Space Agency official.

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Mike E Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:27 pm

Russian company to produce 10 small commsats for India within five years

NEW DELHI, September 25. /ITAR-TASS/. The Russian subdivision of the multinational space company Dauria Aerospace and India's Aniara Communications Company have agreed to advance ten small small geostationary spacecraft, developed and made in Russia, on the markets of Asia and the Middle East witnin five years. A respective agreement was signed on Thursday on the sidelines of the first Skolkovo Foundation Council session in India. Sergey Ivanov, General Director of the Dauria Aerospace, told ITAR-TASS, "The Agreement provides for Aniara's exclusive right to promote our communications satellites over a period of five years. So, this refers to the development, production and launching of ten spacecraft for Aniara". Earlier, at the Farnborough air show, Aniara announced its decision to place an order with the Dauria Aerospace for two satellites, and signed an agreement on the designing and production of spacecraft with an aggregate cost of $200 million. The Russian side expects to launch them at the end of 2017 early in 2018 by means of one carrier rocket. Ivanov specified, "A timeframe regarding the production of ten satellites are in the stage of discussion so far. We expect that it will take three years to make the first two spacecraft and two years to produce subsequent ones. The designing and development of the spacecraft is to be completed by December this year".
The Dauria Aerospace brings into being and deploys an orbital cluster on the basis of small spacecraft. The Company designs and makes publicly-financed satellites at the Ames research center of NASA in California and the Skolkovo innovations center near Moscow. A low price /$100 million per spacecraft/ and a weight of less than one tonne are characteristic of small geostationary satellite platforms.

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Soyuz TMA-14M enters orbit, one solar panel fails to open - RSW

Russia launched three members of the International Space Station, ISS, crew, on Thursday. The Russian commander Aleksandr Samoukutyaev was accompanied by NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore and by Elena Serova, the first Russian woman launching into space in two decades. The crew is expected to work on the station for five and a half months and return to Earth in March 2015. During their mission designated 40S in the ISS schedule, the trio will represent the 41st and 42nd long-duration expeditions onboard the outpost.

The liftoff of a Soyuz-FG rocket took place as scheduled on Sept. 26, 2014, at 00:25 Moscow Time (4:25 p.m. EDT on Sept. 25) from Site 1 at Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch vehicle was carrying the 7,220-kilogram Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft with a three-member crew.
Following a vertical liftoff, the Soyuz-FG rocket headed east to enter an initial orbit with an inclination 51.6 degrees toward the Equator. The four boosters of the first stage separated slightly less than two minutes in flight, following by the separation of the second stage 4.7 minutes after the liftoff. The third stage inserted Soyuz TMA-14M into a 200 by 242-kilometer parking orbit after slightly less than nine minutes of powered flight.
The spacecraft successfully entered orbit, however one of its solar panels did not deploy. The Soyuz could still make it to the ISS under its scheduled four-orbit rendezvous profile relying on its onboard battery, before it needed to be recharged, sources said.
The Soyuz TMA-14M then scheduled to conduct four engine firings during the first and second revolution around the Earth in order to rendezvous and dock at the MIM2 module, a part of the Russian segment of the ISS at 06:16 Moscow Time on September 26, 2014 (10:16 p.m. EDT on September 25).

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First manned spaceship to be launched from Vostochny onboard Angara rocket — Roscosmos

BAIKONUR, September 26. /ITAR-TASS/. The first manned spaceship will be launched from the Vostochny space facility onboard the Angara rocket, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Oleg Ostapenko said on Friday.

“This will be the Angara rocket. Everything has been spelled out. We’re working on that basis,” Ostapenko said.

Ostapenko said other carrier boosters would be launched from the Vostochny space facility as well. “We don’t rule out that more powerful boosters will be launched,” he said.
Preparation of first Angara launch goes as scheduled — deputy minister

Media reports said earlier that the creation of a super-heavy missile system would be included in the federal space program for 2016-2025. Roscosmos asked to provide over 200 billion rubles (over $5 billion) to create such system at the Vostochny space facility.

According to earlier reports, the first manned launch from Vostrochny Cosmodrome is scheduled for 2018.

On September 23, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the first manned spaceship would be launched from the new Vostochny space facility in the Russian Far East on time and without delay. “I would like to fix one very vital date which no one should call into question. I mean the year 2018 and the first manned launch from Vostochny (which is still under construction).”

On September 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a resolution to create a commission for the construction of Vostochny Cosmodrome. Rogozin was appointed as chairman of the commission.

Vostochny should become operational in 2015 and start sending manned missions in 2018.

The cosmodrome is intended for launching automatic and piloted space missions under national, international and commercial programs. Its construction started in 2012 and the first launch is expected to be carried out in by 2015 on board Soyuz-2 light carrier rockets. By 2018, it will be ready to launch heavy Angara-5A rockets. The cosmodrome will also have infrastructure for future piloted missions.

More than 400 social, engineering and transport infrastructure facilities, 115 km of roads and 125 km of railroads will be built at the cosmodrome.

Experts say that the commissioning of the cosmodrome will allow Russia to carry out independent and more effective space activities, launch more space vehicles, reduce environmental impact, facilitate economic development of the region, create new jobs in related industries, and make the region more attractive to investors.

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Viktor Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:13 pm

Launch was success Very Happy

I wonder if that satellite may be one from Liana constellation

Russian communications satellite "Ray" into its target orbit

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Mike E Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:03 am

New Russian spotting system to detect rocket fragments in real-time mode

MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/. Russia's Ministry of Defence will start operating the newest spotting system this year to detect falling rocket fragments. The system was developed at the Khrunichev research and production center to spot impact areas of parts of the carrier rocket Angara, the newspaper Izvestia writes.
According to the newspaper's source at the headquarters of the Air and Space Defence Forces, the possibility is considered to use the new spotting system at the Kamchatka rocket test site Kura during tests and training launchings of ballistic missiles.
The spotting station was devised in order to detect rocket fragments in a real-time mode. Territories allotted for rocket fragments impact areas in the Komi Republic and in Tomsk Region comprise mainly forests. In Komi, an impact area delves 40 km inthe the " Yugyt va" national park .
The falling parts of rockets fly to the ground at a supersonic speed, developing a sonic wave which spreads over to a considerable distance. The station will be able to detect those waves and determine rocket fragments impact areas within difference in time during which a sonic wave is recorded by modules.
Operating autonomously, the modules of one station contact one another via a radio channel, determine the fragment's flight path and an impact area, after which a module of the station transmits data to an Orlan pilotless craft.
In order to determine with the highest accuracy the coordinates of rocket fragments impact areas, it is planned to deploy three to five stations, with a distance between them being 80-100 km.
"Such a system makes it possible simultaneously to track up to 100 fragments, although, usually, it is needed to spot four to five ones," a developmen engineer said.
According to the newspaper's source in the management of the Khrunichev Center, the falling stages of Angara will not be collected immediately after launch, since impact areas are in a difficult-of-access terrain: the fragments will be collected in winter time.
A pilotless craft will be launched and maintained by specially developed autonomous field support stations: these are mobile bases for monitoring impact areas. They are mounted on a Kamaz truck with a high cross-country capacity.
"Impact areas are vast. They cannon be encompassed. Therefore, prior to the launch, people will be searched for by a heat-seeking pilotless craft: people usually enkindle a fire or their diesel generator is operating," the station development engineer explains.
The engineer said that an algorithm for the operation of the impact area coverage systems and their interaction with response services will be described in an agreement which the Defence Ministry is planning to conclude with the administrations of the Komi Republic and Tomsk Region in the coming weeks.
The first launch of a heavy-class carrier rocket Angara is scheduled for December this year. A light-class Angara was successfully tested on July 9, , 2014. According to information from the source in the management of the Khrunichev Center, the cost of the development of the development of the entire station to monitor Angara parts impact areas was not more than 160 million roubles.

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Mike E Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:26 am

Well, what do you know!!!

Space Station Partners in No Rush To Decide on Extension

TORONTO — The heads of three space agencies said Sept. 29 that their governments may not make decisions until 2016 on whether to continue to participate in the international space station beyond 2020.
In a “Heads of Agencies” panel session that kicked off the 65th International Astronautical Congress here, and a press conference that followed, the leaders of the Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said they had near-term priorities to address first, including maximizing the current use of the ISS, before considering the extension proposed by the United States earlier this year.
“In Japan, the government hasn’t decided to join in this program after 2020,” said Naoki Okumura, president of JAXA, when asked about the government’s support for an extension during the panel session. He said discussion would continue within the government until a 2016 meeting of the ISS partners in Japan.
One factor in that decision, he suggested, was finding ways to reduce costs of running the station’s Kibo laboratory module. “We have to tackle that,” he said.
At a press conference after the panel, Okamura’s Canadian and European counterparts also said they were not planning an immediate decision on an extension to at least 2024. ESA director general Jean-Jacques Dordain said his “number one” priority regarding ISS at the agency’s ministerial meeting in December is funding Europe's contribution to the ISS to 2020.
“We are preparing some principal decisions for what’s next after 2020, but there will not be any funding commitment,” he added. “The member states will be invited to give their views on what’s after 2020.”
“Our focus is to maximize the use of the international space Station,” said Walter Natynczyk, president of the Canadian Space Agency. “And then, we will have a look at the entire value proposition when we put a case [for an extension] before the government of Canada.”
In January, the White House and NASA announced that the United States would seek an extension of ISS operations from 2020 to at least 2024. Agency officials have indicated that, from a technical standpoint, the ISS could continue operating to 2028.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, who was also present at the panel session and press conference, did not comment on the statements by his counterparts. In a speech at a Federal Aviation Administration commercial space transportation conference in February, William Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said he expected the international partners would take “several years” to decide on the proposed extension, but would eventually approve it.
Geopolitical tensions this year involving Russia, while not affecting near-term ISS operations, have cast a shadow on the station’s long-term future. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said earlier this year that Russia would end its participation in the ISS in 2020, although since then Roscosmos has indicated they are considering plans for an extension beyond 2020.
Denis Lyskov, deputy head of Roscosmos, was scheduled to appear on the panel at the conference. However, he was one of a number of Russian and Chinese delegates who were unable to attend because of visa problems.

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Nice

RF beginning to replace foreign satellite components long before sanctions

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Satellite manufacturing in Russia to demand more time amid US sanctions — expert

Russia has to replace the components from the US electronic base with their analogues

DOROKHOVO, October 1. /TASS/. The US restrictions on supplies to Russia of electronic base of components for satellites have led to an increase in the terms for creating spacecraft by 8 or 10 months, the deputy chief designer of the Information Satellite Systems said on Wednesday.
“Due to the introduced sanctions, we have been forced to modify a range of devices and equipment. This increases the production time for the spacecraft by 8-10 months from the schedule,” Yury Vygonsky said at the Satcomrus-2014 conference.
Russia has to replace the components from the US electronic base with their analogues, Vygonsky said, adding, “There are the Russian and European (components), everything depends on the quality.”
By mid-2015, the Russian satellite manufacturing company plans to return to “standard terms of manufacturing satellites by an absolutely compatible price,” the expert said.
Amid the Ukrainian crisis, the United States has tightened its export controls in a move that has seriously hurt important Russian space projects. Washington is apparently denying export licenses that allow European and other foreign communications satellites containing US components to be launched into space by Russian rockets, analysts say.
The 19th annual Satcomrus-2014 conference is taking place on October 1-2 outside Moscow. The event has been organized by the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC).
The conference is attended by senior officials from Russia’s Ministry of Communications and Media and the Russian Federal Communications Agency, telecommunication equipment manufacturers, financial institutions, as well as industry analysts, experts and journalists.

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Russian scientists develop system for monitoring space junk

Space litter poses a threat to the population of the Earth, manned orbital stations, spaceships and orbital satellites

ST.PETERSBURG, October 2. /TASS/. Scientists from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University have developed a monitor system to follow space junk.
The system is a set of monitoring meters intended for a spaceship to ensure its safety if established on board, Rector of the St. Petersburg university Andrei Rudskoi told TASS on Thursday.
The space litter monitoring project aroused interest at the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos). Chief of the Roscosmos agency Oleg Ostapenko has promised support to St. Petersburg Polytechnic University to enable it to test the litter monitoring meters on the orbit.
Space litter poses a threat to the population of the Earth, manned orbital stations, spaceships and orbital satellites. Meters on board the spaceship might warn a space crew about space litter on the spaceship's trajectory, and a space crew might either change route or destroy the space litter before encounter.

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New robot control system brings Russia closer to building Moon base — expert

The project named Kontur-2 is part of a larger program of preparations for building a lunar base for geological research and construction of a station on the Moon

ST. PETERSBURG, October 2. /TASS/. Russian scientists are creating a new robot control system that will eventually allow the country to build a lunar base, Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Head Oleg Ostepaneko said on Thursday.
He said Roscosmos and St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University would carry out a joint experiment in outer space in January 2015 using a special joystick aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to control ground-based robots.
There will be three robots on arth: two in Russia and one outside Munich in Germany as this is a joint project with the German Aerospace Center. The robot in Germany will go along a preset line without touching the edges of the metal plate it will move around.
“This will be a motor coordination exercise for cosmonauts,” Vladimir Zaborovsky, chair of the university’s department of telematics, told TASS.
The Russian robots will act as a single system - a hyper manipulator (a robot resembling a large snake or worm that can get through an aperture) fixed on a movable platform.
“It will be up to the cosmonaut to decide how this system will move,” Zaborovsky said.
He said the project named Kontur-2 is part of a larger program of preparations for building a lunar base for geological research and construction of a station on the Moon where most of the work is to be done by robots.

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Russia postpones automatic lunar exploration program until 2018

Russian scientists will focus on Moon and Mars exploration and repeat the Phobos-Grunt mission in the next decade

MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. Russia has postponed the start of its automatic lunar exploration program from 2016 until 2018, Space Research Institute Director Lev Zelyony said on Friday.

“They [the timelines] have been changed from 2016 to 2018. These are Luna Globe and orbiting Luna [program],” he said, adding that there should be no further delays.
“We want to implement three lunar projects this decade: Luna-25, Luna-26 and Luna-27,” he said.
Zelyony said these timelines have been set in the Federal Space Program proposed by the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).
Russian scientists will focus on Moon and Mars exploration and repeat the Phobos-Grunt mission in the next decade, Zelyony said earlier.
“The Moon and Mars are our priority for 2016-2025,” he said.

The Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in partnership with the European Space Agency will be carrying out two stages of the ExoMars mission in 2016 and 2018.

In 2016, Roscosmos is planning to join Europe and Japan in the BepiColombo project.
In 2017, it will orbit the Spektr-RG telescope and send a Russian rover, Luna-Globe, to the Moon in 2019, for the first time in years.
A UV observatory is to be launched in 2020; an orbiting module and a dropship are scheduled to be sent to the Moon in 2012 and 2023, respectively.
After thoroughly testing lunar and Martian technologies, approximately in 2024, Russia, may repeat its Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars’ satellite Phobos to collect its soil and bring it back to Earth.

- In all honesty, this is probably a good thing... It gives em' more time to perfect their technology, and reduces the stress load...

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Vann7 wrote:Nice movie.. thanks for sharing! very informative..

Thank you.

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Russian space agency to present space programme for 2016-2025

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Mike E Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:48 pm

From Earth to space: world's most important spaceports

World Space Week takes place from 4-10 October 2014, the week celebrates the advances in space science around the world. The start and end dates of World Space Week are meaningful. October the 4th marks the anniversary of the launch of the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1 in 1957, while October the 10th marks the signing of the Outer Space Treaty in 1967. World's space launch facilities serving as starting points for space exploration in this photo gallery by TASS

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Mike E Wed Oct 08, 2014 4:36 pm

Manned flight to Mars possible after 2035, says Russian cosmonaut

CHELYABINSK, October 8. /TASS/. A manned mission to Mars will be possible after 2035, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Volkov told an All-Russia Science Festival in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk on Wednesday.
Mankind was not ready to put the first humans on the Red Planet at present, neither scientifically nor technically, Volkov said. “But I suppose this flight will definitely take place after 2035,” he said, adding that people would start exploring the Moon in the meantime.
“There is water on the Moon, and there is Helium-3, which is better than any other energy source existing on the Earth,” the cosmonaut said. “One day we will run out of oil and coal, and mankind will need energy. Then we will start supplying it from the neighbouring planet.”
Volkov flew into space three times from 1985 to 1992, spending a total of 291 days above Earth. He performed two spacewalks and was the first cosmonaut whose son, Sergey, also went into space.

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Russia to continue Baikonur use along with new Vostochny spaceport

MOSCOW, October 10. /TASS/. Russia will not abandon the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and will continue launches from it, along with the Vostochny spaceport that is currently under construction in the Amur region, an official of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Friday.
“We so far have the contractual obligations, we pay the rent for the land allotted for the space infrastructure. The lease agreement expires in 2050,” the head of the strategic planning and target programmes department of Roscosmos Yuri Makarov told TASS.
Russia has two operating cosmodromes - the northern Plesetsk in the Arkhangelsk region and the southern spaceport Baikonur that is used under lease from Kazakhstan until 2050. Another spaceport - Vostochny - is now under construction and its first priority goal is to ease the burden on Baikonur that currently accounts for 80% of Russia’s space activity. The civilian cosmodrome Vostochny is being built in Russia’s Far East in the Amur region. Its commissioning is planned in 2020.

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ISS operation not officially discussed between Russia-US

The ISS was not needed anymore, for all its resources and functions had already been employed in all kind of experiments at the near-Earth space

MOSCOW, October 10. /TASS/. The American space agency NASA has not officially offered Russia to extend the service of International Space Station (ISS) until 2024, Russia’s space agency expert Yury Makarov told TASS on Friday.
“We are now considering possible extension of the ISS operation, which is to be finished by 2020. Our American partners have not made any official claims regarding the issue yet, though they have suggested extending ISS operation during the talks”, he said.
The expert said that ISS was not needed anymore, for all its resources and functions had already been employed in all kind of experiments at the near-Earth space. “The station can still be used for other experiments in the interests of various economic sectors, but the question is whether such experiments are profitable and efficient”, Makarov said. The expert stressed that around one third of funds allocated for Russia’s Federal Space Program 2006-2015, were spent on ISS. Earlier, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin, said that over 30% of the country’s federal budget is wasted to sustain the station; therefore, Russia does not consider it profitable to continue participating in the project after 2020.
Makarov added that the decision regarding the ISS operation would be thoroughly discussed between all participants of the project.

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