A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules launched separately and brought together in orbit. A quarter-century later, in 1987, this concept became reality when ...

DURING the last two months, the Soviet observatory placed on a floe ... On February 3, the station was reported to be in lat. 74° 8′ N., long. 16° 24′ W., which was within about eighty ...

In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem.The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and ...

It is 400 metres thick and it once housed a Soviet research station. Satellite images from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellite, processed by the British Antarctic Survey ...

4. This country was never in a race with Russia to get the first satellite into orbit. Ike Declaration on Russian Bid WASHINGTON, Oct. 9--President Eisenhower ruled out today any joint Soviet ...

The debris of a Soviet satellite that was destroyed by a direct ... are moving along the trajectories outside the orbits of space stations, are under control and have been entered into the main ...

On September 13, 1959, the Soviet Union achieved a significant milestone with the Luna 2 mission, successfully crashing a spacecraft onto the Moon and placing metallic pennants with the U.S.S.R.'s ...