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Moscow (AFP) Jun 16, 2006 Russia plans to send up a space exploration capsule to analyse the surface of Mars and collect test samples from one of the red planet's moons in 2009, Russia's space agency said Friday. "The launch of the Phobos-Grunt space capsule is scheduled for October 2009. The expedition will take three years," Roskosmos said in a written statement. The first stage of the project "will be bringing back to Earth samples of soil from its natural satellite planet Phobos for detailed research in laboratory conditions," the statement said. The Phobos tests could "answer or come close to answering a wide spectrum of scientific questions on the physics of the solar system," it added. ESA is planning a 700-million-euro ($900-million) mission to Mars called ExoMars that is to launch in 2011. Nikolai Sevastyanov, the head of Russia's space construction company RKK Energia, said earlier that Russia could carry out a manned flight to Mars by 2030.
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First Kazakh Satellite Launched
Baikonour, Kazakhstan (AFP) Jun 19, 2006Kazakhstan's first telecommunications satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Sunday in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev. |
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