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A Russian spacecraft that launched more than 50 years ago will finally crash back down to Earth, but nobody knows where it will land or even if it will fully break apart upon reentry.
A near-miss between a NASA spacecraft and a dead Russian satellite in February was even closer than scientists first thought.. The defunct Russian spy satellite Cosmos 2221 zipped past NASA's ...
A Russian-built Soyuz-2 rocket crashed in the country's far north Friday (Dec. 23) during a botched satellite launch. The Soyuz-2 rocket was carrying a Russian military satellite and is Russia's ...
The Express-AM4R satellite, which weighed 5.8 metric tons and had 63 transponders on board, was billed as Russia's most advanced telecommunications satellite, Russia Today reported.
The Russian airline held a news conference this morning. — -- Flashes were observed by an American military satellite in the vicinity of a Russian plane that crashed in Egypt over the weekend ...
Object 48078, a piece of a Russian Zenit-2 rocket that launched in 1996, is now listed with a peculiar note: "collided with satellite." McDowell spotted that new listing and shared it on Twitter .
A dead Russian military satellite that circled the Earth for more than 15 years has plunged into a watery grave in the Pacific Ocean, according to Russian news reports.
Analysis of Russian plane crash in Egypt 01:18 "Either a bomb was placed during the stopover and programmed to explode after takeoff, or a mechanic sabotaged the plane," he said.