Foton 12 and space microbes

Can microbes survive reentry? Foton 12 mission should answer this question.



Zeya mission is over

Russian military experimental craft, Zeya, demostrated Glonass navigation and small cheap control station.



Sailing down the solar wind

Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion promises fast travel outside the Solar system.



First one meter image form Ikonos



GRACE prepares for launch



Integral will be launched by Russian vehicle



One hundred and one misfortune of Garuda

Garuda 1 would be launched before Express-A. A string of problems delayed it until November 16, and Proton failure made Garuda chances uncertain.



Kosmos to bear the three

CHAMP, MITA and BIRD will be launched on April 28 from Plesetsk.



Yakhta will fly at the edge of centuries

Khrunichev Space Center plans first flight for Yakhta-based remote sensing satellite for December 2000. First geostationary Yakhta-based spacecraft should fly by mid-2001.