Russia Launches Navigation Satellites
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The military-run mapping system works over most of Russia and is expected to cover the globe by the end of 2009.
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Russia launched two Russian-Ukrainian Earth probing satellites from the Plesetsk cosmodrome at 14:20, Moscow time, on Friday.
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American astronaut Mike Fincke, front , and Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Shargin, third, get off a plane at the Chkalovsky airport, just outside Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, while heading to Moscow&#39;s Star City, the home-base of Russia&#39;s space program.
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PARIS - Canada's Radarsat-2 Earth observation satellite, which has been almost a decade in design and construction, launched successfully Friday aboard a Russian Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to launch-services provider Starsem S.A. of France.
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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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Russia successfully launched a new model of booster rocket, the Soyuz-2, on Monday following two postponements. The rocket blasted off at 9:30 pm (1830 GMT) from the Plesetsk
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China's burgeoning space program has announced plans to launch its first astronomy satellite and participate in joint projects with Russia and France, state media reported Monday.
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Russia, whose space programme relies heavily on a base in neighbouring Kazakhstan, is to build its own launch site for manned flights by 2018, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying Wednesday.
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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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BAIKONUR. Dec 16 (Interfax) - Preparations for launching an Egyptian satellite began at the Russian Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Saturday.
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MOSCOW, December 29 (Itar-Tass) - Seventeen booster rockets blasted off from Russia&#39;s launch pads this year, sending into orbits 27 satellites, including eight that soared aloft by means of converted intercontinental ballistic missiles, the press service
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A Russian rocket carrying two cosmonauts and one US astronaut launched successfully Thursday on a mission to the International Space Station.
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Russia successfully tests two intercontinental missiles amid renewed criticism over US missile defence plans.
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Satellite observation and control networks in China and France yesterday successfully tracked the orbiting of a satellite launched by the French Government.
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The DM-type Space Upper Stage delivered three Russian satellites of the Glonass navigation system (two Glonass satellites and one Glonass-M satellite) to near-earth orbit.
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Russia successfully conducted a test launch on Monday of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the navy said.
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The head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos said on Friday he hoped a new spacecraft launch site would be built in the Russian far east by 2020 to supplement the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.