Russia launches GPS-like satellites on Christmas Day
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As an unusual Christmas present to the world, Russia sent the last three of its GPS-compatible GLONASS satellites into space on Tuesday, whose missions range from global military tracking to keeping an eye on civilian-owned pet dogs and cats.
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The Russian Progress 16 supply ship, launched Thursday from Kazakhstan, successfully docked with the international space station Christmas day, ending an unexpected food shortage that had raised the prospect of an evacuation.
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Russian controllers fired the International Space Station's thrusters Monday, successfully testing navigation computers that malfunctioned last week.  The six Russian computers provide backup attitude control and orbital altitude adjustments for the station.
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A Russian booster rocket carried a U.S. telecommunications satellite into space on Friday, officials said.
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Russia's GLONASS system, which uses Soviet Cold War-era military technology, is designed to compete with the Global Positioning System.
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Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS  Moscow, 31 January: The Meridian, a strategic communications spacecraft, was today put into operational service ahead of schedule. "Robust communication is being maintained with the spacecraft.
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Christmas is coming but Russian lawmakers have yet to finalise the holiday calendar, leaving millions of Russians' holiday plans up in the air.
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Russia has launched three satellites to extend its version of the U.S. Global Positioning System to the entire Russian territory.
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Artemis, the European Space Agency Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite, successfully relayed optical laser links from an aircraft in early December.
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Campaigning starts for Russia's parliamentary elections, due to take place on 2 December.
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An updated version of Russia&#39;s venerable Soyuz rocket took its first flight Monday, placing a dummy satellite into orbit during a successful qualification launch.
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It's not Superman. It's Russian satellites.
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It wasn&#39;ta gift-filled sleigh departing the North Pole, but the Russian supply capsule launched from frigid Kazakhstan late Thursday carried just as much anticipation as Santa Claus.
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Russia revealed it was fitting its strategic bombers with cruise missiles capable of delivering a massive precision strike thousands of miles away -- giving away the first clear hint of its post-Cold War military strategy.
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The first global positioning system satellite is launched; 23 more will follow, and then we will always know where we are. Compiled by Tony Long.
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The crew of International Space Station received badly needed supplies on Christmas day from an unmanned Russian spacecraft, enabling the mission to continue.
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Dec. 23, 2004 - As many earthlings prepare for Christmas celebrations this weekend, more than two billion kilometres (one billion miles) away a small space probe will begin the final stage of a long journey aimed at a touchdown on one of Saturn&#39;s moons.