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Article: CIS space station prepares for U.S. commercial science payload. (Commonwealth of Independent States)
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- Satellite News
- Article date:
- January 27, 1992
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CIS SPACE STATION PREPARES FOR U.S. COMMERCIAL SCIENCE PAYLOAD
Despite the reorganization of space activities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Russian organization that now operates the Mir space station said last week the orbiting facility is prepared to receive the second in a series of commercial payloads prepared by a Massachusetts-based firm.
NPO Energia, which emerged as the group in control of manned space activities since the breakup of those bodies that administered the space program of the former Soviet Union, reported that pre-launch activities of the pharmaceutical research project of Payload Systems Inc. of Cambridge "have ...