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NASA has signed a $141 million modification to the current International Space Station contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew transportation services planned through the spring of 2012.
Read MoreIgor Shchegolev, the Communications Minister of Russia, has invited Cuba to become a member of Glonass, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. GPS system.
Read MoreIn attendance at the European Space Council in Brussels on September 26 was EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, whose presence validated the importance of Europe's satellite applications services in operational meteorology. The Space Council set four new priorities for the European Space Policy: space and climate change, contribution of space to the Lisbon strategy, space and security, and space exploration.
Read MoreThey met in Paris, they talked, and they agreed. The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies got together to discuss and review ISS cooperation.
Read Morehe Heads of the International Space Station (ISS) Agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met at European Space Agency (ESA) Headquarters in Paris, France, on July 17, 2008, to review ISS cooperation.
Read MoreOver the last 6 months, representatives from NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have been engaged in a detailed assessment of potential programs and technologies that when conducted cooperatively could one day support a human outpost on the moon.
Read MoreDuring a meeting between of The Joint Working Group of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in Goa, an agreement between ISRO and CNES on the data policy for distribution of data received from Megha Tropiques was signed.
Read MoreAn agreement on closer cooperation between ESA and Slovenia was signed on 28 May, by René Oosterlinck, ESA Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, and Mojca Kucler Dolinar, the Slovenian Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology.
Read MoreDuring the morning of the 63 EUMETSAT Council, Dr. Lars Prahm, Director General of EUMETSAT, and Volker Liebig, Director of Earth Observation Programs at the European Space Agency (ESA), exchanged letters to document the understanding achieved between EUMETSAT and ESA.
Read MoreA cooperation agreement for joint lunar research and exploration has been signed between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos). Mr. G Madhavan Nair, the Chairman of the ISRO, and Mr. A. Perminov, the Director of Roskosmos, signed the agreement on November 12th in Moscow.
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