KHABAROVSK, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Archaeologists have found a 15,000 year-old hunter's camp site from the Paleolithic era near Lake Evoron in Russia's Far East, a source in the Khabarovsk archaeology museum said on Monday.
// Nov. 12, 2007 - 10:02 GMT
A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket has been scheduled to put a European telecommunications satellite into orbit on November 18, Russia's space agency (Roskosmos) said Friday.
SIRIUS 4 is a multi-mission Ku/Ka-band satellite operated by SES SIRIUS AB, a leading European provider of telecommunication services. It consists of 54 active transponders covering Europe and Africa.
Roskosmos said launch preparation work has started at the Baikonur space center by International Launch Services, a USA – Russian Federation joint venture with exclusive rights for worldwide commercial sales and mission management of satellite launches on Russia's Proton carrier rockets.
The partners in the joint venture are Space Transport Inc., a privately-owned corporation based in the British Virgin Islands, the Khrunichev center, and Moscow's RSC Energia.
The Proton rocket launches both commercial ILS missions and Russian government payloads from the Baikonur space center, which is operated by Roskosmos under lease from Kazakhstan.
// Nov. 02, 2007 - 16:21 GMT
MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) – An international orbital astrophysical observatory, Spektr-R, will be launched in 2008, an organizer of the project announced on Monday.
// Oct. 29, 2007 - 19:16 GMT
MOSCOW, October 29 (RIA Novosti) – Construction of a space complex at the Baikonur space center and the Glonass system open new avenues for joint space projects between Russia and Kazakhstan, the Russian foreign minister said Monday.
// Oct. 29, 2007 - 11:27 GMT
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// Oct. 25, 2007 - 15:06 GMT
TYUMEN, October 24 (RIA Novosti) – An international group of scientists in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area said a frozen baby mammoth named Lyuba died 37,000 years ago, the local governor's press service said Wednesday.
// Oct. 24, 2007 - 08:20 GMT
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// Oct. 23, 2007 - 18:11 GMT
VORONEZH, October 23 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian cockroach called Nadezhda (Hope) has given birth to the first creatures ever conceived in space, scientists in Voronezh, central Russia, said on Tuesday.
// Oct. 23, 2007 - 15:35 GMT
BEIJING, October 22 (RIA Novosti) – China plans to launch its first Moon research satellite October 24 at 10 a.m. GMT, a Chinese space industry spokesman said Monday.
// Oct. 22, 2007 - 17:00 GMT