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Now the last page is turned... Boris Natanovich Strugatsky has passed away today. Together with his elder brother Arkadiy, they were simply the greatest Russian Science Fiction writers of all time. Their books have formed minds of the best people in the previous and mine generation... "The...

Really a 1st Chinese SAR? Maybe 1st launched in the open? And as usual, your launch stories are unsurpassed! :thumbup:

Уже лучше. ;)

Triple contrails of the Soyuz TMA-05M's capsule observed in North Caucasus last night (the time marks are MSK): Credit: maurisio The observer described the brightness of the visible contrail as "much brighter than Venus with its +3 mag".

http://www.interfax.ru/news.asp?id=275962 The cable is repaired, and the commands now flow the primary channel, says head of Roscosmos Press Service Alexey Kuznetsov.

Something like that has really happened in my former employer's office past week: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/at-least-5-killed-in-moscow-office-shooting/471121.html

The source in http://ria.ru/science/20121114/910758822.html says the cable breakage near Scholkovskoye highway has broken a link between MCC-M and the network of ground tracking stations across Russia. This has affected the ability of the MCC-M to send uplink information to RSOS and to civilian...

Breaking news... http://ria.ru/science/20121114/910754202.html RUSSIAN GROUND CONTROLLERS HAVE LOST ABILITY TO COMMAND MOST OF THE CIVILIAN SATELLITES AND RUSSIAN SEGMENT OF THE ISS BECAUSE OF A CABLE BREAKAGE IN MOSCOW TERRITORY http://ria.ru/science/20121114/910754744.html UNDOCKING OF...

The fact of launch is confirmed

I don't think the mentioned events can directly affect Popovkin, as the article suggests. He's on the other side of the front line in this scandal: all the buzz around "Russian Space Systems" have ignited after Popovkin began to make public noise about them.

It's not directly related to Roscosmos, but the change is pretty important as such, since it may influence future developments in Roscosmos as well. http://www.rferl.org/content/putin-fires-russia-defense-minister/24761953.html I guess it's now politically correct to say the the former...

Those users of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome who are not happy with the new look and feel of NK forum, can install Stylish addon for their browser, then download and install a custom look and feel which resembles the traditional one, by this link...

And on a new platform, with a new look! http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/ Reading is always encouraged, although it's, as before, a purely Russian language forum, posting in English from time to time is tolerated.

GalPengSST, nice find of the info at the MCC's website! :thumbup:

http://www.interfax.ru/news.asp?id=273726 Cargo spaceship Progress M-17M has successfully docked to the International Space Station, to Zvezda module's aft docking port, said a Roscosmos representative to Interfax news agency.

div1 on Vimeo Will a vimeo video embed? Here's a footage shared by an observer from one of Russian Optical Satellite Tracking system stations which shows final operations of Briz-M upper stage during the recent Intelsat-23 launch. 00:00 - 40:00 - Briz-M plane change / GEO insertion burn 45:00...

Did you wonder, what the blessing squad on Baikonur was for? ;) Thanks guys for the outstanding coverage, the forums didn't load for me most of the day today! :hello:

Is there any expectation when does NASA confirm the crossing of interstellar space border?

One of my blog friends has just published that. I'm happy to share with you too. This is a 360-deg aerial panorama shot with 5 cameras installed on stratospheric balloon launched over central Russia and assembled with help of AirPano team (these guys travel to shoot aerial panoramas in...

Galactic Penguin SST, that rocks! :rofl::rofl: