October 2025
Investigating the hidden effects of zero gravity on astronaut vision
... Director for academic affairs, Head of the Psychology and Psychophysiology Department of the IBMP RAS, Moscow, Russia, Alexander E Smoleevsky - Candidate of Medical Science, Leading Expert at the Scientific and Research Institute of Ergatic Systems...
14 October 2015
Putin delays first launch from new Russian cosmodrome
... construction, Putin said that while the ideal would be to have the launch before April 12—Cosmonautics Day in Russia—“a last-minute rush is unnecessary.” Construction of the $3 billion cosmodrome has faced delays, a hunger strike by workers last...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
...the country only the third nation, also after the US and Russia, to land a spacecraft on Earth's satellite - a tricky ... as a collaborator on the International Space Station with the US, Russia, Europe and Canada. Japan built a large science lab room ...
March 2015
Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs
... as organize so-called complete knock down (CKD) assembly of “national VSAT” in countries such as India, Brazil, China, and Russia, where the government limits import and imposes heavy customs and administrative duties on the finished product...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
...precise orbital parameters of the comet. For Russia, launching Western spacecraft does not help develop ... turn invited Soviet scientists to work on NASA projects. Now, Russia must provide launch vehicles for European projects for the chance to ...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... via the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Russia: British singer Sarah Brightman and Japanese businessman Satoshi... candidate for space flight must fit medical criteria determined by Russia and the ISS program for manned space flight. We pay...
