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Putin Says Glonass GPS System Must Go CommercialMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 16, 2010 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed on Monday introducing the Glonass navigation system throughout the country's regions and getting it onto "commercial rails." Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to determine their positions to within a few meters. "Our system will actually be global and cover the entire globe," P ... read more |
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Jakarta, Indonesia (XNA) Feb 16, 2010The United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) offered Indonesia's National Flight and Space Agency (LAPAN) to participate in researches at the International Space Station, Kompas daily quoted an official as saying on Saturday. The step is a follow up of President Barack Obama's policy to embrace Asian countries to participate in space research activities. Th ... more  
Washington (AFP) Feb 15, 2010Endeavour astronauts on Monday attached a windowed cupola to the International Space Station (ISS), affording its inhabitants a spectacular view of Earth, as well as additional living and work space. The windowed dome was placed on an Earth-facing port on the Tranquility module, installed during the space shuttle mission's first two spacewalks. A final spacewalk is set for late Tuesday (0209 ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 15, 2010On February 12, 1955, the first military construction units arrived at Tyura-Tam railroad siding (station) to launch the construction of a new missile test range - Scientific-Research Test Range No. 5 of the Soviet Defense Ministry (NIIP-5), currently known as the Baikonur Space Center. The need for a new test range became evident after the Soviet Union began to develop its own intercontin ... more |
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Voyager Celebrates 20-Year-Old Valentine To Solar SystemPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2010 Twenty years ago on February 14, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft had sailed beyond the outermost planet in our solar system and turned its camera inward to snap a series of final images that would be its parting valentine to the string of planets it called home. Mercury was too close to the sun to see, Mars showed only a thin crescent of sunlight, and Pluto was too dim, but Voyager was able to capture cameos of Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Earth and Venus from its unique vantage point. Thes ... read more |
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