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Eight wagons of freighter derail in Dagestan, no casualties.
MAKHACHKALA, September 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Eight wagons of a freighter
have derailed on the Baku-Rostov railway line near the city of Kizilyurt
in Dagestan.
The accident resulted from small rivers washing away the
railway embankment due to the rain going on for about 24 hours, a source
in the duty unit of the transport police department of the Makhachkala
branch of the North Caucasus Railway told Itar-Tass.
No casualties were reported in the accident.
Meanwhile, a section of the Caucasus federal highway was washed away
near Kizilyurt. Emergency teams of railway workers and road workers are
about to go to the accident site. Emergency road sections will be examined
and the restoration works will begin in the daytime.
The rains do not stop in the republic.
.Dep PM Ivanov to hold meeting on developing energy-efficient techs.
ST. PETERSBURG, September 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Deputy Prime
Minister Sergei Ivanov will hold a meeting on development and introduction
of energy-efficient technologies here on Monday.
The council of general and chief designers, leading scientists and
specialists in the high-tech sectors of economy under the Russian premier
will meet at one of the leading Russian electronics enterprises - the
Petersburg-based plant Svetlana, a source in the staff of the deputy prime
minister told Itar-Tass. The joint stock company Svetlana is incorporated
in the Russian Electronics holding company, the stock of which is owned by
the state corporation Rostechnologii. The Russian Electronics holding
consolidates the potential of about 80 enterprises, which are specialized
in the designing and production of electronic and radioelectronic
equipment.
The Petersburg enterprise Svetlana is a founder and one of the
flagships of Russia's electronic industry. The Svetlana plant dates back
to 1889. In 1914 the enterprise produced the first Russian incandescent
electric lamp and launched the commercial production of the lamp since
1920. The Svetlana plant gained the strongest positions in the development
and production of powerful vacuum tubes, klystron tubes and roentgen
tubes. The Svetlana products are applied in radiocommunications,
radiolocation, radio broadcasting, television, information control
systems, baggage scanning equipment, medicine and home appliances. The
Svetlana company exports more than 20% of its produce. The enterprise
permanently introduces innovative developments that makes its products
highly competitive. The Svetlana enterprise includes a parent company and
daughter companies, which are specialized in the production of particular
products. Each daughter enterprise has its design bureau with the
production and is engaged in the scientific research and production full
cycle, including research, designing, production and the product sale.
.Last outdated Progress freighter to undock from ISS.
MOSCOW, September 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The last Russian freighter
Progress of the outdated modification will undock from the International
Space Station (ISS) on Monday and will turn in an orbital laboratory for a
week, spokesman for the Mission Control Center in the Moscow region Valery
Lyndin told Itar-Tass.
"The Progress M-67 loaded with the garbage amassed on the ISS will
undock at about 11.27 Moscow time from the ISS under the command from the
Earth and will go on an autonomous flight," he said. The freighter has
been docked to the Zvezda service module of the ISS for about two months,
Lyndin recalled.
The freighter will not be sunken immediately in the Pacific, but will
be brought at a safe distance from the ISS and will conduct the
Plasma-Progress experiment aboard the freighter for a week. Some fuel was
kept in the freighter especially for the autonomous flight, the expert
said.
Freighters were earlier used repeatedly as orbital laboratories,
Lyndin said. For instance, the Plasma-Progress experiment was carried out
aboard the freighters Progress M-60, Progress M-64 and Progress M-66, and
the Progress M-61 has explored the atmosphere of the Earth for a month.
"The practice of applying the Progress freighters as scientific
laboratories will be continued in future," Lyndin said.
The manned spaceship Soyuz TMA-16, which will bring to the ISS the
crew of the 21st expedition and a space tourist, is to dock to the Zvezda
service module on October 2 instead of the undocked freighter. A launch of
the Soyuz TMA-16 is scheduled for September 30.
According to chief of the Energia space and rocket corporation Vitaly
Lopota, the Progress M-67 was the last spacecraft of the previous
modification (with the analog control system). All freighters of the new
modification will have the digital control system in future, Lopota said.
The first two freighters of this modification - Progress M-01M and
Progress M-02M - have already passed the tests, during which "some remarks
and questions arose, but were settled."
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have derailed on the Baku-Rostov railway line near the city of Kizilyurt
in Dagestan.
The accident resulted from small rivers washing away the
railway embankment due to the rain going on for about 24 hours, a source
in the duty unit of the transport police department of the Makhachkala
branch of the North Caucasus Railway told Itar-Tass.
No casualties were reported in the accident.
Meanwhile, a section of the Caucasus federal highway was washed away
near Kizilyurt. Emergency teams of railway workers and road workers are
about to go to the accident site. Emergency road sections will be examined
and the restoration works will begin in the daytime.
The rains do not stop in the republic.
.Dep PM Ivanov to hold meeting on developing energy-efficient techs.
ST. PETERSBURG, September 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Deputy Prime
Minister Sergei Ivanov will hold a meeting on development and introduction
of energy-efficient technologies here on Monday.
The council of general and chief designers, leading scientists and
specialists in the high-tech sectors of economy under the Russian premier
will meet at one of the leading Russian electronics enterprises - the
Petersburg-based plant Svetlana, a source in the staff of the deputy prime
minister told Itar-Tass. The joint stock company Svetlana is incorporated
in the Russian Electronics holding company, the stock of which is owned by
the state corporation Rostechnologii. The Russian Electronics holding
consolidates the potential of about 80 enterprises, which are specialized
in the designing and production of electronic and radioelectronic
equipment.
The Petersburg enterprise Svetlana is a founder and one of the
flagships of Russia's electronic industry. The Svetlana plant dates back
to 1889. In 1914 the enterprise produced the first Russian incandescent
electric lamp and launched the commercial production of the lamp since
1920. The Svetlana plant gained the strongest positions in the development
and production of powerful vacuum tubes, klystron tubes and roentgen
tubes. The Svetlana products are applied in radiocommunications,
radiolocation, radio broadcasting, television, information control
systems, baggage scanning equipment, medicine and home appliances. The
Svetlana company exports more than 20% of its produce. The enterprise
permanently introduces innovative developments that makes its products
highly competitive. The Svetlana enterprise includes a parent company and
daughter companies, which are specialized in the production of particular
products. Each daughter enterprise has its design bureau with the
production and is engaged in the scientific research and production full
cycle, including research, designing, production and the product sale.
.Last outdated Progress freighter to undock from ISS.
MOSCOW, September 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The last Russian freighter
Progress of the outdated modification will undock from the International
Space Station (ISS) on Monday and will turn in an orbital laboratory for a
week, spokesman for the Mission Control Center in the Moscow region Valery
Lyndin told Itar-Tass.
"The Progress M-67 loaded with the garbage amassed on the ISS will
undock at about 11.27 Moscow time from the ISS under the command from the
Earth and will go on an autonomous flight," he said. The freighter has
been docked to the Zvezda service module of the ISS for about two months,
Lyndin recalled.
The freighter will not be sunken immediately in the Pacific, but will
be brought at a safe distance from the ISS and will conduct the
Plasma-Progress experiment aboard the freighter for a week. Some fuel was
kept in the freighter especially for the autonomous flight, the expert
said.
Freighters were earlier used repeatedly as orbital laboratories,
Lyndin said. For instance, the Plasma-Progress experiment was carried out
aboard the freighters Progress M-60, Progress M-64 and Progress M-66, and
the Progress M-61 has explored the atmosphere of the Earth for a month.
"The practice of applying the Progress freighters as scientific
laboratories will be continued in future," Lyndin said.
The manned spaceship Soyuz TMA-16, which will bring to the ISS the
crew of the 21st expedition and a space tourist, is to dock to the Zvezda
service module on October 2 instead of the undocked freighter. A launch of
the Soyuz TMA-16 is scheduled for September 30.
According to chief of the Energia space and rocket corporation Vitaly
Lopota, the Progress M-67 was the last spacecraft of the previous
modification (with the analog control system). All freighters of the new
modification will have the digital control system in future, Lopota said.
The first two freighters of this modification - Progress M-01M and
Progress M-02M - have already passed the tests, during which "some remarks
and questions arose, but were settled."
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