Towards 2010-2011, India intends to send an unmanned lander to the moon, and the Russian space agency Roscosmos will assist it in this * Russia will help Japan finish the laboratory it built for the International Space Station
"To conclude the talks, I can announce that Roscosmos will participate in India's lunar program in 2010-2011. The most active part will be taken by a scientific-industrial association named after Lavochkin (NPO Lavochkin), which will develop a machine for collecting lunar soil models," Panarin said at the end of the meeting between Paraminov and the head of the Indian Space Research Organization, Madhavan Nair.
Also, during the talks between India and Russia, an agreement was reached regarding the launch of the Indian microsatellite "YouthSat" on a Russian launcher. The issues of India's use of Russia's GLONASS satellite navigation system and the supply of Russian instrumentation to the Indian GSLV launcher were also raised.
Strengthening the relationship between Russia and Japan
And in the same matter - the Interfax news agency reports that after the meeting between Paraminov and JAXA (Japanese space agency) officials, Panarin announced that Russia would like to increase the cooperation between it and Japan in the construction of the Russian part of the International Space Station and a wider participation of Japanese scientists in the experiments conducted on the station. "We are interested in Japan joining the joint space exploration programs of Russia and Europe, as well as increasing Japanese participation in the Russian part of the ISS," Panarin said. He added that on October 10-9 there will be meetings between Roscosmos representatives and ESA (European Space Agency) representatives, and he hoped that the Europeans would also support the proposal.
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A satellite that is also a SuitSat (index 28933 / 2005-035C) ended its mission when it burned up in the atmosphere. Although it happened on September 7, the issue remained out of the headlines due to the flight of the space shuttle Atlantis and the Soyuz TMA spacecraft. Now you can remember him too. You can read about the Russian invention here.
The new date for the launch of Soyuz-2.1 with the European MetOp satellite is October 12. As you remember, the European Space Agency stopped preparations for the launch because of the fear that the satellite cracked when the upper part of the Soyuz launcher was hit due to an incorrect maneuver. Now the launch needs to be approved by ESA.
The tests of the sophisticated "Voronezh-M" radar system, which is located near the town of Lehtusi in the Saint-Petersburg region, are being completed. The new system will enable coverage of the entire northwest of Russia, which was exposed for 7 years due to the closure of the Russian radar system in Latvia, and will enable early detection not only of ballistic missiles, but also of cruise missiles and tactical missiles. "Wrange-M" is built from small parts, similar to a puzzle, which allows it to be built far from the place of placement and saves time in its construction (a year and a half instead of 5-9 years). In addition to this, the new system will be cheaper (2.85 billion rubles instead of 4.9 billion for the "Dnepr"-Dnepr system, which is stationed in Ukraine), will consume less energy (0.7 MW instead of 2) and personnel [source].
Voronezh-M will enter active service in 2007. In the future, replacement of radar systems is also planned for Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Azerbaijan.
Russia will launch a new imaging satellite called Resurs-P to replace the existing Monitor-E and Resurs-DK satellites. The new satellite, which is intended for civilian photography of the UAE, will provide images with a resolution of half to two meters, partner photography in the visible and infrared range with a resolution of 5-10 meters, and will also be able to receive information from autonomous meteorological stations. In the meantime, 3 competitors (Progress Industrial-Scientific Center for Space and Missiles, Khronishev Industrial-Scientific Center for Space and Missiles and the Russian Institute for Space Instrumentation Engineering) passed the stage of the project draft. The first satellite from the new series (Resurs-P1) will be launched into orbit towards 2009-2010. The news on the portal of the Russian GIS Association.
In 2007, the Russian spacecraft "Coronas-Photon" will be launched, Yuri Kotov, the scientific director of the project of the Space Research Institute in Moscow, announced on Tuesday. "The purpose of the satellite is to answer the question of the nature of global warming - is it related to the changing processes of the sun's corona or is it due to human activity" said Kotov. According to him, the answer to this global question will allow humanity to think about the next step.
"The information we hope to receive from Koronas-Foton will make it possible to understand whether it was necessary to follow the Kyoto Protocol and give recommendations to different countries, or whether everything will return to normal in a certain period of time," he emphasized.
Coronas-Foton consists of 80% of Russian-made devices and parts, and the rest were made in India and other countries. The satellite will be launched on the Ukrainian Zenit launcher, into a circular orbit at an altitude of 550 km.
The search for life in space - this is one of the missions of the Russian "RadioAstron" spacecraft that will be launched in mid-2007, reports the Ria Novosti news agency. This was announced by Professor Nikolai Kardashev, the senior expert of the Astronomical Center at the Lebedev Institute of Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the press conference held at the Space Research Institute.
The spacecraft, at a cost of 3 million rubles, will be launched from Baikonur on a Zenit next year, and will circle around the Earth in an elliptical orbit that will be suitable for long-term research of the distant interplanetary space. The satellite, which will be used as a radio telescope and will be able to study astrophysical objects such as the centers of galaxies, the plasma of the solar wind, quasars, and black holes, is equipped with a 12-meter long parabolic antenna, which will open in space, and sophisticated instrumentation. The home page of the prefect.
