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Publish date: July 2, 1998
Written by: Igor Kudrik
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The satellites, developed by Berlin Technical University, will be placed into orbit on an SS-N-23 (RCM-54)-type ballistic missile. This is considered to be a high-risk operation. It was one of the Northern fleets Delta-class submarine which suffered an accident in one of its rocket tubes on May 5th this year.
According to The Moscow Times, Berlin Technical University’s Transport and Applied Mechanics Department said two more launches of such satellites will be negotiated if this launch is a success. The commercial launch of satellites from nuclear-powered submarines began in 1994. In early June 1995, a commercial satellite was launched from a submerged Delta-III class submarine in the Barents Sea, not far from the submarine base in Gremikha.
An anonymous naval officer says in an interview with The Moscow Times the Northern fleet will be paid some 200,000 German Mark ($111,000) for the launch. The launch will also help the submarines crew hone their combat skills, which have suffered because funds have not been available for training exercises.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
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