The Russia Blog
Phobos-Grunt, the Russian space probe intended to explore Mars, crashed back to earth late on Sunday evening.
Defense Ministry official Alexei Zolotukhin told reporters tersely that “Phobos-Grunt fragments have crashed down in the Pacific Ocean”. There’s not much official news from the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos yet though, other than information narrowing down the… Read the rest
Russian space agency Roscosmos today announced that it had agreed in principle to undertake a number joint missions with the European Space Agency. The agreement was reached at a meeting in Moscow between Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Roscosmos and Jean-Jacques Dordain, the ESA’s Director General.
The first, and most headline-worthy, is a mission to… Read the rest
Russia has begun discussions about building a space center in Cuba.
Pictures and video of the Russian space shuttle Buran, as it is sailed down the Rhine to its final resting place in a German museum.
The image below is from Google Maps.
Notice the blur in the middle? I didn’t put it there – Google did. Click on this link to check for yourself.
Then scroll out a bit, using the controls of the left of the screen. Notice anything else?
Yep – the blurred out area is… Read the rest
One of the joys of writing siberianlight.net is the random stuff I find while searching the net. Take this piece of Star Trek fan-fiction I found today on Technorati, for example, in which Capain Kirk takes a trip down memory lane and (almost) visits Siberia’s finest city:
“That is correct, Colonel. Our captain has
Last week I wrote about the disgraceful number of closed cities in Russia, another of those leftovers from an anarchic age that Russia remains addicted to, despite (or perhaps because of) the restrictions it places on the human rights of their 1.7 million residents.
In a rather timely decision, the BBC have just… Read the rest
Russia and the European Space Agency (ESA) could be working together to develop the Kliper (Clipper) space shuttle.
It’s all but official�Russia and Europe will soon embark on a cooperative effort to build a next-generation manned space shuttle. Speaking at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, France, in June, Russian
