Tag: russia
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Iran Captures CIA Drone
Iran reports capture of CIA drone, this week, on Iran TV. It appears to be a CIA RQ-170 (UAV), taken into possession by Iran about 140 miles inside its eastern border. // Update: Obama appeals to Iran to give back downed drone
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first contact with phobos grunt since nov 8th
A Perth, Australia tracking station made contact with errant Phobos Grunt spacecraft, yesterday. A Universe Today article reports actions of tracking station. “ESA [European Space Agency] said in a press release that the signals sent to Phoboos-Grunt commanded the spacecraft’s transmitter to switch on, sending a signal down to the station’s 15 m dish antenna.…
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actual race to mars could begin saturday
from foxnews: It’s a grueling marathon, only this time the finish line is the Red Planet — and the race takes place at 70,000 miles per hour. NASA’s newest Mars rover is scheduled for launch Saturday; Curiosity should arrive at the Red Planet’s mineral-rich Gale Crater next August, after a 354-million-mile, 8.5-month voyage aboard an…
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zero hour approaching for phobos-grunt
from examiner: What could be the most ambitious Mars mission in history could be doomed to failure within 24 hours thanks to a faulty rocket thruster that was designed to propel the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe to the Red Planet. Now, two weeks after a rocket stage failed to activate, Phobos-Grunt finds itself stuck in Earth’s…
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cyber attack reported on illinois water plant
video: cyber attack on water supply allegedly came from russia A Washington Post article reports, “…foreign hackers caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail last week…” The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are investigating the Springfield, IL incident. In an interesting note, the article adds, “news of the incident became public…
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phobos grunt space probe stuck in earth orbit
Russian Phobos Grunt space probe stuck in Earth orbit after engines fail to fire. “‘The engine did not fire, neither the first nor the second burn occurred. This means that the craft was unable to find its bearings by the stars,’ [Russian Space Agency Chief Vladimir] Popovkin said at Russia’s Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan,”…
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manned iss flights look better after successful soyuz launch
from pcmag: The successful Sunday launch of a Russian cargo ship on a mission to resupply the International Space Station is an important step in resuming manned flights to the orbiting laboratory after a launch accident destroyed another unmanned freighter in August, according to Russian and NASA officials. “It was a perfect launch,” Mission Control…
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russians want moon cave for lunar base
A cave makes for a ready-made dwelling – no digging! Russians are considering a moon cave to house a lunar base. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) released photo (pictured) taken by their lunar orbiter, as reported at The Daily Galaxy: “In 2009…lunar orbiter, Kaguya, spotted a big hole in the moon – sixty five…
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10/20 defcon: ops, apps & agony
top egypt ‘facebook revolutionary’ advising #OWS* ‘anti-cheating boyfriend’ app forced to change* video: theater review of ‘the agony & the ecstasy of steve jobs’: the moral issues behind iphone & its makers* was 1883 astro-mystery a near-miss billion ton comet?* does future hold ‘avatar’-like bodies for us?* russians wants to build colony on the moon;…
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US weighed use of cyberattacks to weaken libya
from nytimes: Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare: a cyberoffensive to disrupt and even disable the Qaddafi government’s air-defense system, which threatened allied warplanes. While the exact techniques under consideration remain classified, the goal would have…
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US preparing more sanctions against iran over saudi murder plot
will US exploit dubious terror case to attack iran? from kurt nimmo: On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced it had uncovered a plot by Iran to enlist a member of a Mexican drug cartel to kill Saudi Arabia’s envoy in Washington, D.C. The FBI and the DEA uncovered the plot, according to officials. The FBI…
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new world next week – oct6
new world next week: episode086 – eurasian union, revolution prediction, #occupyportland Welcome back to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week: Story #1: Putin Wants ‘Eurasian Union’ to Compete With US…
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putin wants ‘eurasian union’ to compete with US & european union
from endthelie.com: Vladimir Putin recently detailed his plan to build a Eurasian Union somewhat reminiscent of the USSR in the Izvestia newspaper which he aims to be able to compete with the European Union and the United States. Putin said, “We are talking about a model of a powerful supranational union capable of becoming one…
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uvb-76: inside the russian short wave radio enigma
from wired: From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to buzzes, generally between 21 and 34 per minute, each lasting roughly a second—a…
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soyuz lands safely, rattles nerves
from ap: A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three returning astronauts from the International Space Station touched down safely Friday in the central steppes of Kazakhstan, but not without rattling nerves after a breakdown in communications. NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyayev landed some 93 miles southeast of the city…