Russia: Roscosmos to spend over $29 million upgrading rocket engine reliability

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Russian state space corporation Roscosmos is allocating over 1.9 billion rubles ($29 million) to upgrading carrier rocket engines, rocket boosters and spacecraft, according to materials published on Russia’s official public procurement website. The contracted upgrades include replacing engine parts and materials, increasing engine reliability and reducing defects and failures during test flights. Roscosmos also plans…

Russia: Roscosmos begins to design super-heavy carrier rocket

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Russia’s S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia General Director Vladimir Solntsev said that state space corporation Roscosmos started working on designing a new super-heavy class carrier rocket on the basis of the RD-171 liquid-fuel rocket engine. “We are working on a super-heavy class rocket with an engine that we already have – the…

Russia: Roselectronics creates an EVA vision system

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Under order from RSC Energia, Roselectronics has designed a single CCTV system used to monitor astronaut activity in space. The system will be tested in 2017. It was developed on the basis of the Orlan-MKS spacesuit currently used by Russian astronauts and designed for eight hours of continuous operation. A single TV camera block attached…

Ukraine: Azovmash to ship 3,000 wagons to Iran

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Public joint-stock company Azovobschemash (Mariupol, Donetsk region), the flagship company of the leader of Ukrainian heavy engineering Azovmash Group, will ship 3,000 wagons to Iran, the Ukrainian Embassy in Iran has reported. The cost of the agreement signed with the help of the embassy exceeded 100 million euro. “This is only the first agreement to…

Russia: Renault to deliver cars to Azerbaijan

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French automobile concern Renault plans to deliver cars to Azerbaijan from Russia. Renault has already started to deliver cars to Kyrgyzstan from Russia. Meanwhile, the company wants to expand opportunities to localize the production thanks to the access to new markets of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), while car sales in Russia decrease against…

Russia: Renault launches exports of cars to Kyrgyzstan

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Renault Russia has launched exports of cars made in the country to Kyrgyzstan, the company said in a statement. “Renault Russia announces a launch of supplies of cars to Kyrgyzstan, thus expanding the export project to the CIS states. The first export supplies of Renault cars to the country were carried out in the framework…

Belarus: company to produce agricultural machines in Russia’s Kaluga region

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A Belarusian enterprise producing agricultural machines will be established in Kaluga region, Russia, the press service of the Embassy of Belarus in Russia reported. A Belarusian delegation led by Deputy Industry Minister Dmitry Korchik arrived in Kaluga region on August 23, with a working visit. The purpose of the visit is to study the region’s…

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