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August 05, 2014

Baikonur Cosmodrome Could Stop Receiving Financing in 2016
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 05, 2014
Russian Ministry of Finance might stop financing Baikonur cosmodrome in 2016, Izvestia newspaper reported Friday citing a source in Roscosmos. "In previous versions of draft budget for 2016 it was planned to allocate a $705 million (2.5 billion rubles) subsidy for Baikonur maintenance. The money was supposed to be spent on salaries and field maintenance. We asked for more. But when our representative in Ministry of Finance was shown the final draft there was zero," the official from the Fede ... read more

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NASA Experts, Russia Sign Radiation Safety Protocol Despite Sanctions NASA experts have signed a protocol with Russia on radiation safety for space flights despite the new set of US sanctions against Moscow, the director of Moscow State University's Institute of Nucle ... more		United Launch Alliance Launches Two Rockets in Just Four Days A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the seventh Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF (GPS IIF-7) satellite for the U.S. Air Force launched at 11:23 p.m. EDT yesterday from Space La ... more		NEEMO 18 Aquanauts Complete Underwater Mission Four astronauts splashed up from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean on July 29, bringing to a successful close the 18th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) expedition. "Splashup" took ... more
				U.S. government using commercial Inmarsat 5 satellite Military Ka-band satellite communications service from a commercial satellite is being provided by Boeing to a U.S. government entity. ... more		Russia has violated arms treaty by testing cruise missile: US The United States has found that Russia violated a 1987 arms control treaty by testing a ground-launched cruise missile, a senior US official said late Monday, calling the matter "very serious." ... more

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