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April 02, 2014

Health risks of Mars mission would exceed NASA limits
Washington (AFP) April 02, 2014
Efforts to send humans to Mars would likely expose them to health risks beyond the limits of what NASA currently allows, an independent panel of medical experts said Wednesday. Therefore, any long-term or deep space missions - which are still decades off - need a special level of ethical scrutiny, said the report by the Institute of Medicine. "These types of missions will likely expose crews to levels of known risk that are beyond those allowed by current health standards, as well as to a rang ... read more

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NASA suspends Russia ties, except on space station NASA has cut all contacts with Russia except for cooperation aboard the International Space Station, according to an internal memo obtained by the online news site The Verge on Wednesday. ... more		Ukraine crisis brings MDA project to a halt A Canadian communications and information company says the political and military crisis in Ukraine is having an adverse effect on its business there. ... more		Mars and Earth move closer together this month Spring is here, love is in the air, and Mars and Earth are getting a little closer this time of year. ... more
				Dawn draws ever closer to dwarf planet Ceres Powering its way through deep space, Dawn draws ever closer to dwarf planet Ceres. To reach its destination, the interplanetary spaceship gently reshapes its path around the sun with its extraordina ... more		EUTELSAT 3B Mission Status Update During the final "dry" roll-out phase of integrated launch vehicle (ILV) processing at Home Port in support of the EUTELSAT 3B mission, a discrepancy in the nominal movement of the cable-mast and th ... more

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Black hole makes 'String of Pearls' clusters Huge young star clusters resembling a string of pearls around a black hole in the centre of a galaxy 120 million light-years away have been discovered by researchers at Swinburne University of Techn ... more		USAF Awards Lockheed Martin Full Production Contracts For Next Two GPS 3 Satellites The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin more than $245 million in contract options to complete production of its seventh and eighth next-generation Global Positioning System satellites, known as ... more		Despite Western pressure, China in no hurry to reduce Russia support N. Korea fires ballistic missiles after denying Russia arms transfers Taiwan's Lai to bolster 'porcupine' defence against China threat		NASA Awards Digital Processor Assembly Contract for LCRD Flight Payload NASA has awarded the Digital Processor Assembly contract to SEAKR Engineering Inc., Centennial, Colo., for use on the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) project. This is a sole so ... more
				Russian Resupply Vehicle to Blast Off for ISS Voyage A Russian unmanned Progress resupply spacecraft is readying for an April 9 launch from the Baikonur space center to deliver essential cargo to the International Space Station, the Russian space agen ... more		NASA Begins Search for Potential SOFIA Partners NASA issued a Request for Information (RFI) Monday soliciting potential partners interested in using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft for scientific investigatio ... more

Developing the Next-Generation Military Radar while Maintaining Current Systems; IDGA�s Military Radar Summit - April 2014

Nuclear Supply Chain Summit - April 28-29 Greenville SC

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STRATXX Airship Broadcasts Digital TV Radio Over 100km of Land Stratxx Holding AG has recently announced that it has launched a new tethered Airship: the "X-Tower". The airship is designed to carry telecommunications and broadcast payloads. The team recen ... more		Mitsubishi Electric Completes In-Orbit Delivery of TURKSAT-4A Satellite Mitsubishi Electric has completed the in-orbit delivery of the TURKSAT-4A satellite to Turksat Satellite Communication, Cable TV and Operation Inc. Co. (Turksat A.S.) on March 29. TURKSAT-4A w ... more		For sale: unique piece of land in strategic Arctic archipelago Daily ice loss in Greenland tracked by new GPS method Brazil's Porto Alegre: a flood disaster waiting to happen		Scientists date Moon at 4.470 billion years The Moon was formed about 95 million years after the birth of our Solar System, in a collision that also settled the structure of Earth as we know it, according to the latest attempt at dating that impact. ... more
				A Question of Atmospheres: On Earth and Beyond Scientists recently discovered the source of naturally occurring aerosol particles in Earth's atmosphere that play an important role in cloud formation. The particles in questions are known as 'clim ... more		India to have own satellite navigation system by 2015 India is expected to have its own satellite navigation system by the first quarter of 2015 with four of its satellites in space, said an official of Indian space agency. India is expected to have it ... more

Misleading mineral may have resulted in overestimate of water in moon

Scientists date Moon at 4.470 billion years

Unique camera from NASA's moon missions sold at auction

The Opposition of Mars

Health risks of Mars mission would exceed NASA limits

Mars and Earth move closer together this month

NASA Commercial Crew Partners Complete Space System Milestones

NASA suspends Russia ties, except on space station

China, Asia-Pacific, will power world tourism: survey

China launches experimental satellite

Tiangong's New Mission

"Space Odyssey": China's aspiration in future space exploration

	NASA Radar Watches Over California's Aging Levees One morning in 2008, research scientist Cathleen Jones of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was flying over the San Andreas fault near San Francisco, testing a new radar instrume ... more		Misleading mineral may have resulted in overestimate of water in moon The amount of water present in the moon may have been overestimated by scientists studying the mineral apatite, says a team of researchers led by Jeremy Boyce of the UCLA Department of Earth, Planet ... more		Russian Lawmakers Approve Satellite Navigation Hub in Nicaragua Russian lawmakers have endorsed draft legislation to allow the country to set up a satellite navigation monitoring system in Nicaragua, a Cabinet committee said Tuesday. "The agreement is aime ... more		Panel to discuss forging university-business ties to promote future of space How do academic and commercial stakeholders join forces to promote space science and exploration in the immediate future and decades to come? An expert panel of astronauts, scientists, commercial sp ... more

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Soyuz ready for Sentinel-1A satellite launch

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Cosmic barometer' could reveal violent events in universe's past

NASA Commercial Crew Partners Complete Space System Milestones

Britain, France give MBDA missile development contract

Upward Falling Payloads Advances Deep-Sea Payload Technology

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Creating virtual universes

Give a name to ESA's zone of silence

Space Observation Optics Cover from IR to X-ray Wavelengths

Study finds astronauts' hearts become more spherical in space

The Opposition of Mars

Hubble: Magnifying the Distant Universe

China eyes 'global monitoring network' of surveillance satellites

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