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The Russian Football Union meets with the heads of the European Football Association after banning European competition

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Executives of the Russian Football Union (RFU) will meet their counterparts at UEFA at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, this week. Russian Federation General Secretary Maxim Mitrofanov and Vice President Alexander Aliyev will attend a meeting on Tuesday, and UEFA President Alexander Dyukov is scheduled to attend a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the federation. The British government sanctioned Dyukov, the CEO of one of Russia’s state-owned oil producers, Gazprom, in April. Russian national teams and clubs have been banned from European…

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Russia calls the old space station “dangerous” and plans a successor

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Russia’s space chief said Thursday that the International Space Station (ISS) is dangerous and unfit for purpose, as Moscow presses ahead with plans to pull out of the project and launch its own station. Major malfunctions of equipment and obsolescence of parts threaten the safety of the crew at the 24-year-old station, said Yuri Borisov, head of Roscosmos. The International Space Station has been a rare area of ​​cooperation between the United States and Russia even as diplomatic relations deteriorate. But since Russia invaded Ukraine in February and came under…

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Russia says it will be ready to extend a spaceflight sharing agreement with the United States

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The Executive Director of the Russian Space Agency said, Friday, that Russia will be ready to extend an agreement with the United States to share flights to the International Space Station beyond 2024 if the first three flights are successful. NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos signed an agreement in July that allows Russian cosmonauts to fly aboard a US-made spacecraft in exchange for US astronauts being able to board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. RIA reported at the time that the agreement provided for six flights in total between…

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Space News Weekly Summary: Artemis Program, Colliding Black Holes and More

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Last week, NASA revealed some of the science and technology payloads that will embark on a journey into deep space with the agency’s Artemis I moon mission. That same week, a Russian cosmonaut had to cut short his spacewalk due to a spacesuit battery malfunction. Here’s our summary of an exciting week for space news. Artemis I: Sending yeast into space with BioSentinel NASA’s Artemis I mission may be unmanned but that doesn’t mean there’s no life on the board. A shoebox-sized satellite called BioSentinel will carry microorganisms, in the…

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Russian spacewalk cut off due to bad battery in cosmonaut’s suit

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A Russian cosmonaut was forced to dash again inside the International Space Station on Wednesday when the battery voltage in his spacesuit suddenly dropped. The Russian mission control unit ordered Oleg Artemyev, the station commander, to quickly return to the airlock so that he could attach his suit to power. The hatch remained open while his spacewalk partner, Denis Matveyev, arranged outside, and NASA said neither man was in any danger at all. In fact, Matveev stayed outside for another hour or so, before he was also asked to shut…

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Space News Weekly Summary: Problems for the first SSLV flight to SpaceX to replace Russia

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Last Sunday, ISRO’s SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle) mission took off successfully. But something went wrong almost immediately when ISRO chief S Somnath announced that the SSLV D1 mission had suffered a data loss. Before long, ISRO announced that the two satellites deployed by the launch vehicle would not be useful because they were placed in the wrong orbit. From a partially successful SSLV launch to a video from a Chinese space station, here’s your weekly space news feed. ISRO’s first SSLV launch was a partial success ISRO’s first SSLV…

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Europe looks to SpaceX for Musk to bridge the launch gap left by Russian tensions

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX that could lead to the temporary use of launch pads after the conflict in Ukraine prevented Western access to Russia’s Soyuz missiles. The US private rival to European firm Arianespace has emerged as a major contender to fill a temporary gap along with Japan and India, but final decisions depend on the as-yet-unresolved schedule of the delayed Ariane 6 missile in Europe. “I would say there are two and a half options that we are discussing.…

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Russia launches Iranian satellite into space amid West’s fears

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A Russian rocket carrying an Iranian satellite was successfully launched into space on Tuesday as Moscow and Tehran seek to build closer ties in the face of Western sanctions. The remote sensing satellite called Khiam was launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, home of Russian space launches located in southern Kazakhstan, at 08:52 a.m. Moscow time (0552 GMT) on Tuesday, according to a video clip. It was broadcast by the Russian space agency Roscosmos on YouTube. Tehran has dismissed allegations that the satellite may be used…

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National French Frying Day and “Star Trek” – delicious combo

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ViacomCBS French fries and mint ice cream as seen in the “Star Trek: Picard” episode, “The Broken Pieces.” July 13, 2022 is National French Fry Day in the United States. Many restaurants according to Today.comThe Today Show celebrates free fries, including McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Hardee’s, Sonic, Fat Burger, Elevation Burger, and Charlie’s. And their salty fries are so delicious and timeless, that they’ve been able to be included in many iterations of “Star Trek,” including “Enterprise,” “Short Treks,” “Discovery,” “Lower Decks,” and “Picard.” . “Star Trek” wiki alpha memory…

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Russia opens cases against Google and other foreign technologies over data storage

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Russia’s telecommunications organization Roskomnadzor said on Friday it had opened administrative cases against Alphabet Inc and six other foreign technology companies over alleged violations of personal data legislation. Moscow has clashed with big tech companies over content, censorship, data and local representation in a simmering dispute that has erupted into an all-out information battle since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on February 24. Russia fined Google 3 million rubles ($46,540) last year for not storing Russian users’ personal data in databases on Russian soil, and said…

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