Middle East Times
Friday 8th March, 2013
A new crew for the International Space Station will install equipment to monitor Earth’s atmosphere and forecast natural disasters, a Russian cosmonaut says. The crew will lift off from the Baikonur space center March 28 abroad a Soyuz-TMA-08M carrier rocket, ISS-36 Crew Commander Pavel Vinogradov told RIA Novosti Thursday. The new equipment — a complex system of sensors and antennas designed to study the plasma/wave processes in the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere — will be installed on the outer surface of the station’s Russian segment during one of the four spacewalks, he said. It i…
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