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U.S. Extends Sole Remaining Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russia Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. would use the five years of the New START treaty’s renewal to pursue limits on all of Russia’s nuclear weapons. ELLEN KNICKMEYER The United States joined Russia on Wednesday in extending the two countries’ last remaining treaty limiting their stockpiles of nuclear weapons, two days before the pact was set to expire. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement the U.S. woul...

A combat crew of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation launched a medium-class carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1B  from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The medium-class carrier rocket carried a spacecraft of the Russian Ministry of Defense on board. All prelaunch operations and the launch of the space rocket went normally. All systems of ground-based automated control for spacecraft of the Russian orbital group monitored the launch and the flight of the space rocket. The ground-based aerospace syste...

Russia hints it may return to Open Skies Treaty if US does February 2 In this file photo taken June 10, 2004, a Russian Federation Tupolev Tu-154 Open Skies Treaty reconnaissance aircraft sits on the runway at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, prior to its departure for two overflights of central Alaska. (Mark Farmer/AP) MOSCOW — Russia may consider returning to an international pact allowing surveillance flights over military facilities if the United States reverses its exi...

A prototype rocket from the US thats powered by biofuel passed its first major test flight on Sunday.   The rocket, called Stardust 1.0, was developed by a firm called BluShift Aerospace, which is based in Brunswick in Maine.   The 20-foot (six metre) prototype rocket reached an altitude of just over 4,000 feet (1,219 metres) during its maiden run, which was designed to test the rockets propulsion and control systems. Video footage shows Stardust 1.0 blasting off from the former Loring Air ...

In this photo, a scientist at the European Space Agency's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory at the ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands works on essential mission work.

Biden Seeks 5-Year Extension of Nuke Treaty With Russia: Pentagon President Joe Biden made a decision to propose to Russia a five-year extension of the New START treaty that limits the number of U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons, John Kirby, chief Pentagon spokesman said in a statement on Thursday. The treaty, which restricts the United States and Russia to deploying no more than 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads each, is due to expire on Feb. 5. “We cannot afford to lose New START’...

politico | Joe Biden to seek full 5-year extension of New START nuclear pact with Russia The announcement on the first full day of Biden’s presidency is intended to prevent a nuclear arms race The treaty, which has limited the US and Russia to 1,550 nuclear warheads each, expires on February 5

NGC 613, a barred spiral galaxy 67 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Sculptor, shows its stunning stellar markings in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

UAWire  Wednesday, January 13, 2021 1:00:00 PM Russian Space Agency’s ambitious plans to "raise the Russian space industry from its knees” are back on paper. For the second year in a row, the Roscosmos State Corporation has failed the governments plan on the number of space launches. By the end of 2020, Russia conducted 16 launches. 7 of them were from the Baikonur and Plesetsk cosmodromes, one from Vostochny and one from Kura, RIA Novosti reported. The final result was three times lower t...

 January 10, 2021: In late 2019, Russia revealed the results of its investigation into corruption that crippled efforts to complete construction of the new Vostochny space center (Cosmodrome). The aftershocks of that report are still being felt. The arrests and prosecutions for related corruption continue as does the replacement of senior officials for not being able to do the job. The most recent firing took place in November 2020 when Andrei Okhlopkov, the ...