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Russia wants to charge more for rides to space: reportMoscow (AFP) Feb 9, 2010 Russia, which is set to hold a monopoly on flights to the international space station (ISS), wants to charge more for rides on its Soyuz rocket, the space agency head said Tuesday. "At a meeting of the space agency chiefs in Tokyo, I want to discuss the maintenance of transport to the station," Roskomos head Anatoly Perminov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. "We have an agreement until 2012 that Russia will be responsible for this. But after that? Excuse me but the prices should ... read more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Feb 09, 2010Arianespace is laying the groundwork for another busy year with its workhorse Ariane 5, as the first mission of 2010 moves into its second phase of preparations and the follow-on flight's launch vehicle is delivered to French Guiana. The heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA for Arianespace's kick-off mission of 2010 was transferred from the Spaceport's Launcher Integration Building to the Final Assembl ... more  
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 8, 2010The US space shuttle Endeavour on Monday soared into orbit carrying an observation deck for the International Space Station, a seven-windowed dome offering breathtaking views. The picture-perfect launch lit up the night sky at 4:14 am (0914 GMT), after a first attempt was scrubbed on Sunday due to heavy clouds over the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft and its crew o ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 09, 2010The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will jump straight to its maximum energy without any medium-energy proton collisions, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said on its website. Experts, who gathered in Chamonix last week, revised the previous schedule according to which first physicists at the LHC were to switch to medium-energy beam collisions of 10 TeV this summer, fo ... more |
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Progress Docks With ISSMoscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 08, 2010 Approach to the space station, its fly-around, stationkeeping and docking were performed in automatic mode. The initial contact with the docking port on the instrumentation and propulsion compartment of the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS Russian Segment (RS) occurred at 07:26 Moscow Time. The crew of Expedition 22 to ISS working on-board the space station monitored the process of rendezvous and docking. All the dynamic operations were performed by mission control specialists under the supervisio ... read more |
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