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Novosti Kosmonavtiki Events of September, 2003 Contents Piloted Flights ISS Main Expedition Seven Mission Chronicle: September 2003 Progress Ml-10 Undocked Cosmonauts Received Satellite Communications Progress M-48 delivered to the 7th ISS crew Indium satellite telephones and 'Garmin GPS indicator for emergency communications and navigation after landing. The only problem is to certify the phone battery charger. Return To Flight NASA began Shuttle fleet modifications to comply with the Gehman commission recommendations as search for new goal for manned flights is ongoing. China Is Going Skywards On the threshold of the first Chinese manned spaceflight Dmitriy Regentov reviews the history of this country's piloted program. Countdown Started Chinese Space Laboratory And Problems Of Docking Cosmonauts. Astronauts New TsPK Commander And Deputy Appointed Maj.Gen. Vasiliy Tsibliyev became new commander of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center since September 17. Col. Valeriy Korzun is his new deputy. Petr Klimuk Seeing-Off Ceremony Held Cosmonaut Candidates Began Space Training Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich MKS-8 Crew Training Finished On Astronauts Enterprises Odyssey Program Start Russian students participate in space-oriented educational course. Final part of it will be based on Don-17KS (MIR) simulator at TsPK. KB TKhM Is 60 Launches USA-171: New 'Ear' In Orbit Second Launch Of Kaitouzhe: Unsuccessful Again? Kosmos-3M And The Next Cluster Of Microsats Four international and two Russian satellites were launched on September 27 after an inventive workaround of a failed valve in the second stage oxidizer load system. Space Forces Commander On Prospects Of The Northern Cosmodrome 1.6 billion Roubles has been obligated to develop Plesetsk infrastructure but 1.8 billion more is needed. 'Polyot' continues Three Spacecraft Launched By Ariane 5 Europe Probes Moon For The First Time Hot Autumn For. Proton-M Probes Russian Interplanetary Plans Russia is about to return to development and launch of deep space probes due to better financial environment. Fobos-Grunt now scheduled for launch in 2009 is the obvious leader and it now may host an additional U.S. payload. The next one now being considered is a Venus lander Venera-D (2013). Russian participation in European BepiColombo mission (2012) would also be quite significant: launch vehicles, the MSE lander and instruments on both MPO and MSE. The Ptaneta-A program envisages Russian instruments on NASA and ESA probes. Luna-Glob, Mars-Grunt and Aster projects are under consideration too. 'I Don't Think We've Got A Gap In Technologies' Jupiter Swallowed Galileo GAIA Will Continue Exploration Of Universe Rosetta: Target Shown By Hubble Project Of Indian Lunar Mission Specified Launch Vehicles European Vega Russian-European Cooperation In Rocket Engines RD-180 Production In The U.S.: Coming To Reality Astronomy Hubble Images Mars In Opposition Satellites JWST Main Mirror Design Selected Conferences. Exhibitions Kaluga: The City Of Space Space Art Exhibition History Before First Piloted One... From The History Of Sea-Going Space Fleet: 35 Years Since Zond-5 (Part 1) Jubilees 95th Anniversary Of Academician V.P.GLushko Academician V.P.Glushko Jubilee Celebrated 70th Anniversary Of Ye.V.Khrunov 72 pades, 100 photos |