Russia, NASA to Meet This Month to Discuss Collaboration on Nuclear-Powered...
NASA's Prometheus Nuclear-Powered, Ion-Propelled Spacecraft NASA's proposed Prometheus spacecraft would've had a nuclear engine in the nose that powered ion jets in the rear to propel the...
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RadioAstron Flight Model Astro Space Center, Russian Academy of Science A new Russian space telescope that will work in concert with radio telescopes on the ground launched earlier today, capping an...
View ArticleRussia's Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars is Stuck in Earth Orbit After Engines...
Phobos-Grunt and Upper Stage A model of the Phobos-Grunt probe with its upper state MKonair on Flickr A day after the successful launch of the Phobos-Grunt probe from Baikonur Cosmodrome in...
View ArticlePhobos-Grunt, Still Stuck in Orbit, Could Burn Up in the Atmosphere in January
Phobos-Grunt and Upper Stage A model of the Phobos-Grunt probe with its upper state MKonair on Flickr It's now been almost a week since the launch of Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, and still...
View ArticleLost Mars Probe Briefly Phones Home, But the Window to Save the Phobos-Grunt...
The Phobos-Grunt That Wasn't A Roscosmos rendering of Phobos-Grunt approaching Mars and its moon Phobos. Roscosmos Finally, Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft has called home. The European Space Agency...
View ArticlePresident Medvedev Suggests Punishing Those Responsible for Phobos-Grunt Debacle
The Phobos-Grunt That Wasn't A Roscosmos rendering of Phobos-Grunt approaching Mars and its moon Phobos. Roscosmos Most of the sentiment surrounding Russia's failed Mars-bound Phobos-Grunt has been a...
View ArticleRussian Space Authorities Determine Cause of Failed Mars Probe: America
Phobos-Grunt in Space Thierry Legault The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos--you know, the one that hasn't enjoyed a lot of success lately--isn't sure exactly why Russia's doomed Phobos-Grunt...
View ArticleRussian Space Chief: 'We’re Talking About Establishing Permanent Bases' On...
Destination: the Moon Bob Familiar via WikimediaYesterday, the heads of the space agencies for Europe, Canada, Russia, India, and Japan met in Washington D.C. (without NASA, which had all hands on...
View ArticleRussia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970s
Moon Mission Wikimedia Commons Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2015, according to agency head Vladimir Popovkin. The rocket carrying the...
View ArticleRussia's 'Space Ark' Returns All Of Its Lizards And Half Its Mice Safely To...
A Bion-M1 capsule launches aboard a Soyuz rocket DLR photo via WikimediaLess than half of the rodents, lizards, fish, and other small animals that were lofted skyward last month made it back alive,...
View ArticleWatch Live As 3 Astronauts Rocket Toward The ISS
Live streaming video by Ustream A Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:58 p.m. Eastern time...
View ArticleRussian Space Telescope Lifts Off, Will Be Biggest Telescope Ever
A new Russian space telescope that will work in concert with radio telescopes on the ground launched earlier today, capping an effort that germinated during the Cold War. It…
View ArticleRussia's Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars is Stuck in Earth Orbit After Engines...
A day after the successful launch of the Phobos-Grunt probe from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian mission handlers are already scrambling to save their spacecraft…
View ArticlePhobos-Grunt, Still Stuck in Orbit, Could Burn Up in the Atmosphere in January
It's now been almost a week since the launch of Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, and still mission handlers have received no communication from the interplanetary probe…
View ArticleLost Mars Probe Briefly Phones Home, But the Window to Save the Phobos-Grunt...
Finally, Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft has called home. The European Space Agency has confirmed that Roscosmos' marooned spacecraft--stuck in Earth orbit after a failed…
View ArticlePresident Medvedev Suggests Punishing Those Responsible for Phobos-Grunt Debacle
Most of the sentiment surrounding Russia's failed Mars-bound Phobos-Grunt has been a mix of guarded hopefulness that Roscosmos will recover the mission--currently stalled in…
View ArticleRussian Space Authorities Determine Cause of Failed Mars Probe: America
The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos--you know, the one that hasn't enjoyed a lot of success lately--isn't sure exactly why Russia's doomed Phobos-Grunt mission failed…
View ArticleRussian Space Chief: 'We’re Talking About Establishing Permanent Bases' On...
Yesterday, the heads of the space agencies for Europe, Canada, Russia, India, and Japan met in Washington D.C. (without NASA, which had all hands on deck for the SpaceX…
View ArticleRussia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970s
Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch an unmanned mission to the moon in 2015, according to agency head Vladimir Popovkin. The rocket carrying the…
View ArticleRussia's 'Space Ark' Returns All Of Its Lizards And Half Its Mice Safely To...
Less than half of the rodents, lizards, fish, and other small animals that were lofted skyward last month made it back alive, but nonetheless Russian researchers are…
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