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North Korea has installed the first stage of a long-range rocket it plans to launch this month on the launch pad, defying international calls to cancel the mission.

• 03 декабря 2012, 18:13

South Korea plans to go ahead with a delayed rocket launch on Thursday next week in its third bid in four years to put a satellite into orbit.

• 23 ноября 2012, 10:09

Twelve rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit Israel on Wednesday in the first hours that followed a ceasefire agreement ending hostilities in the week-long Gaza conflict.

• 22 ноября 2012, 10:39

Korea is set to go ahead next week with a delayed rocket launch as it aims to join the elite club of nations capable of putting a satellite into orbit.

• 20 ноября 2012, 18:28

A Russian rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off successfully on Tuesday for the International Space Station.

• 24 октября 2012, 18:26

Soyuz rocket launched two Galileo satellites into orbit on Friday, marking a crucial step for Europe's planned navigation system, operator Arianespace announced.

• 13 октября 2012, 17:18

North Korea said Tuesday it possessed rockets capable of striking the US mainland, as it slammed a new US-South Korean deal to extend the range of the South's missile systems.

• 10 октября 2012, 10:00

The armed wings of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad group announced Monday they had fired a series of rockets at Israel, a day after an Israeli air strike that injured 10 people.

• 08 октября 2012, 16:55

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Sunday, launching the cargo-laden Dragon capsule into orbit en route to the International Space Station for NASA's first privately-run supply mission.

• 08 октября 2012, 12:01

The project is very interesting: Head of KazKosmos Talgat mussabayev.

• 29 августа 2012, 11:26

Russia is able to build a new superheavy carrier rocket capable of delivering space vehicles of up to 20 tons to the Moon within 3-4 years.

• 28 августа 2012, 15:16

The Israeli army has deployed an Iron Dome air defence system, designed to intercept and destroy rockets, days after two rockets were fired at the town of Eilat near the border with Egypt.

• 21 августа 2012, 18:06

Two Russian space launches from Kazakhstan's Baikonur will be made in the middle of summer and the beginning of autumn.

• 21 июня 2012, 18:38

We have agreed that Kazakhstan issues a permit to Russia for these unplanned launches: Karim Massimov.

• 18 июня 2012, 18:39

Kazakhstan has never banned the coordinated launches. Do not blow it into a political issue: Mussabayev.

• 11 июня 2012, 17:03

Initially the Baiterek (“poplar tree”) space launch complex was supposed to be constructed at Baikonur in 2013, following the testings of Angara booster rocket.

• 04 октября 2011, 00:42

It’s time to sit down and think if we really need the project that is likely not to pay back. The risks are huge: Mr. Mussabayev.

• 12 сентября 2011, 00:29