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The risk of meteorite crashing into the earth is greater than expected
A study published in Nature confirms the risk of meteorites crashing into the earth as a meteorite explosion in Russia was much larger than previous forecasts.
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Russia fired a geolocation satellite of Glonass
A satellite belonging to the Glonass global positioning system of Russia has been decommissioned due to equipment malfunction.
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Russia declared war on meteors threatening the Earth
Russian space agencies are studying a plan to deal with a giant meteorite that threatens to attack Earth in 2023.
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Russia is about to launch its first private satellite
Russia will launch a 100% privately funded first satellite into orbit with Soyuz-2-1B boosters in February 2014, RIA Novosti reported on October 15.
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Salvage huge meteorite falling to earth
Russian scientists picked up a giant meteorite from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul on October 16 in February.
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Russia will launch ships to collect specimens from the moon Mars
Russia will make its second attempt to bring back dust samples from Phobos, one of Mars's two moons.
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Russia and the United States started to work on anti-meteor weapons
Confronting each other in the use of nuclear warheads, but now both the US and Russia have decided to start cooperation to develop nuclear weapons against the threat of…
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China is about to
According to public figures in 2011, China reached a 3-billion-dollar export of high-tech goods, including aerospace technology. Meanwhile Russia only has 1.1 billion US…
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Russia is not ready to fight aliens
Although known as the space force, the soldiers of the Russian space corps cannot cope with the invasion of alien civilizations, if any.
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Meteorite exploded in Russia with the age of the Solar System
The meteorite that exploded in the sky of Russia in February was determined to be about 4.56 billion years old, equivalent to the age of the Solar System.
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Russian spacecraft to ISS carries Olympic torch
On the morning of September 26, at 00:59 (local time), at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), Russia successfully launched Soyuz ТМА-10М, taking the Olympic torch to t…
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Salvage of the largest meteorite in Russia
The divers lifted the rock considered the heaviest in the meteorite explosion in the Russian sky earlier this year.
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Russia successfully launched the European telecommunications satellite
Russia successfully launched Proton-M missiles carrying European communication satellites with Briz-M propulsion blocks.
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Did the meteorite explode in Russia collide with the Sun?
The meteorite block that injured more than 1,500 people in the country on February 15 may have almost touched the Sun before falling to Earth and exploding.
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Russia salvaged the meteorite block from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul
The Aleut company, based in the city of Ekaterinburg, has won the bid for the right to salvage the giant meteorite that fell into Lake Chebarkul in Chelyabin province, t…