KAZAKHSTAN PLANS TO BUILD AND LAUNCH ITS OWN COMMUNICATION SATELLITE
Published:
14 January 2001 y., Sunday
The fourth meeting of the intergovernmental committee for co-operation between Kazakhstan and Russia related to the Baikonur launching site has been recently held in Karagandy along with an international scientific and practical conference focusing on environmental issues of the Baikonur site, Kazakhstan Aerodynamic Committee Chairman Moldabekov informed.
The conference participants were especially interested in the joint space exploration program up to the year 2005. Moldabekov gave special attention to the five-year programme for estimation of environmental after-effects of space exploration activities. He informed that Proton-M upgraded rocket carriers, re-designed to produce less impact on the environment, will be launched from Baikonur in 2001. Moldabekov has also announced that Kazakhstan is carrying out a feasibility study of a project for the building and launching of its own communication satellite jointly with Russia and several foreign states.
Šaltinis:
transcaspian.ru
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
Software company announced new structure_ of it_s business.
more »
Despite some concern from investors about the viability of the entire online grocery business, HomeGrocer.com Inc._s stock rose nearly 18 percent when it debuted on Wall Street on Friday.
more »
A hacker attack on an e-commerce marketplace site is the latest in a string of online break-ins in which credit card numbers were stolen and posted to the Web.
more »
Apple Gets Worldwide Injunctions Against IMac Lookalikes.
more »
At a time when everybody wants to be a dot-com, InfoSpace is shooing away the distinction.
more »
Federal authorities arrested a 17-year-old New Hampshire high school dropout Wednesday and charged him with hacking into a California Web site.
more »
Singapore To Fund Citizens_ Internet Access.
more »
search.lt presents newest links
more »
Computer chip maker Advanced Micro Devices on Monday unveiled the first PC Processor running at a so-called ``clock speed'' of one gigahertz, beating its far larger rival Intel Corp. in achieving a long-sought milestone in the PC industry.
more »
Customer complaints have prompted Microsoft to halt a new WebTV practice of inserting banner ads into the email messages of subscribers of the TV-based Web service.
more »
Permitting at-large members to vote could allow fraud, study finds.
more »