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Is Russia's Space Program Viable?Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2012 Russia is the only country ferrying astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station and back since NASA retired its aging fleet. But Russia's space agency has experienced a string of mishaps in recent months. Some analysts are worrying about the reliability of the Russian space program. The November launch of the Phobos-Grunt probe from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe was meant to take Russia back to deep space after a decade-long absence. To the embarrassment of Russia' ... read more |
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 IAI and Boeing drive to active Arrow-3 High Planetary Tilt Lowers Odds for Life? Global Extinction: Gradual Doom Is Just As Bad As Abrupt Devas deal cancelled for national security SES-4 Satellite Launch Re-Scheduled For February 14-15 Satellite Industry Growth To Continue Despite Challenging Environment Mobile Launcher Tests Confirm Designs Mars radar finds possible ocean sediments Iran to launch new generation of satellites Land-cover changes do not impact glacier loss Raytheon Awarded Contract for Missile Defense System Ex-ISRO chief slams Antrix-Devas probe ULA Completes Critical Milestones Toward Certifying Atlas V for Human Spaceflight SES' broadband service ASTRA2Connect and Nordnet expand their offerings | .. |
 Russia's space programs fully financed until 2016 The Russian government has fully financed its space research programs until 2016, including two Moon expeditions, a leading Russian aerospace company Lavochkin said Tuesday. According to Lavoc ... more | .. |
 Don't pass the buck, Roskosmos The head of Roskomos, Vladimir Popovkin, has insinuated that the embarrassing failure of Phobos-Grunt (which I wrote about earlier) could be attributed to a shadowy plot of some kind. "I don't want ... more | .. |
 Russia hints at foul play in its space failures The head of Russia's beleaguered space programme hinted on Tuesday that foreign powers may be behind the string of failures that struck his agency in the past year. ... more | .. |
 India unveils statue of cosmonaut Gagarin A statue of the world's first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was unveiled Friday in Mumbai on the grounds of the Nehru Science Center, center officials said. ... more |
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Minister orders Russian space agency security blitz after blogger invasion Russia's space agency Roscosmos has been given until January to rectify security at its plants or face the consequences, after a reported penetration of its rocket plant in northern Moscow. A ... more | .. |
Russia's space chief says industry in 'crisis' after latest failure Russia's space industry needs an influx of new faces to overcome its current crisis, the head of the Roscosmos agency said on Friday, hours after a satellite crashed in southern Siberia. "The ... more | .. |
Russia launches navigation satellite Russia on Monday successfully launched a satellite for its Glonass global navigation system from its Plesetsk cosmodrome, the country's space agency said. ... more | .. |
 Conclusion of the XIXth Scientific-Technical Conference of young scientists and specialists The XIXth Scientific-Technical conference of young scientists and specialists concluded its work at S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia. At the meetings of its 12 sections 365 representati ... more |
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 Space industry workers' negligence caused Russian spacecraft loss Negligence by space industry enterprises' employees was the reason for the loss of an Express AM-4 telecommunications satellite and Progress M-12M space freighter earlier this year, Russian Prosecut ... more | .. |
 Russia puts off building of AK-T space laboratory Russia has postponed the building of the AK-T space laboratory due to lack of scientific projects the station has been designed for, a Russian space agency official said Friday. The project wo ... more | .. |
 Russian Space objectives Russia plans to carry out an unmanned lunar flight before 2050, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said. Speaking at a State Duma session, he emphasized that further research ... more | .. |
 Russia sets priorities for federal space program The Russian space agency Roscosmos has prioritized commercial use of its satellites as part of the federal space program until 2015. "By 2015, we are planning to increase the number of Earth o ... more |
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 Russian Space Forces to conduct 14 rocket launches by year end Russia's Space Forces will carry out 14 launches of various carrier rockets until the end of 2011, SF commander Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said. "About 14 launches will be carried out from the Pl ... more | .. |
Russian space agency needs reforms - Roscosmos head The head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday that recent failed launches were a reflection of the agency's management problems. "We have found the causes [of the failures] a ... more | .. |
 Bad weather hampers search for debris of Russian space freighter Poor weather conditions in South Siberia's Altai Republic may prevent the search for the crash site of a Progress-M spacecraft for the second consecutive day, a Russian space official said on Friday ... more | .. |
 Russia may put space program under state defense order The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday it is considering returning the federal space program to the framework of the state defense order to ensure steady financing and reduce t ... more |
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 "Progress's" misfortune doesn't change Russia's space plans The Russian, the US, the European, the Canadian and the Japanese space agencies, who are partners in using the International Space Station, are now jointly analyzing the reasons for the crash of the ... more | .. |
 Roscosmos smarting after Progress loss Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 29, 2011 Heads are expected to roll in Russia's space industry in the wake of the recent failures, above all the August 24 incident when the cargo spaceship Progress M-12M ... more | .. |
 Russia enters the era of space realism The recent string of spaceflight accidents in Russia is the symptom of a deep crisis in the nation's aerospace industry. Experts say it's time to tone down the rhetoric about Russia being a "great s ... more | .. |
Roscosmos to tighten control of space industry after rocket lost The Russian space agency Roscosmos says it will set up a commission for quality control in the space industry after the loss of the Progress spacecraft. The Progress M-12M space freighter carr ... more |
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 Russia likely to suspend space deliveries over loss of Progress freighter Russia may fail to fulfill its obligations in delivering crews to the International Space Station after Wednesday's accident with Russia's Progress M-12M space freighter, a source in Russia's space ... more | .. |
 Russia's space industry may face overhaul after cargo ship crash A Russian Progress cargo ship crashed into Siberia after failing to reach the right orbit Wednesday. The crash marked the second failure in space launch in less than a week and the third in this yea ... more | .. |
 Russia grounds Soyuz rockets after space cargo craft crash Russia has grounded its Soyuz rockets after one of the unmanned craft crashed shortly after blast-off while carrying tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station, a space official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
Russia's recent catalogue of space disasters The failed launch of the unmanned Progress cargo space craft which crashed into Earth instead of delivering supplies to the ISS was the latest in a spate of mishaps in the Russian space programme. ... more |
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