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TAMPA, Fla. — Canadian satellite operator Telesat plans to raise $500 million with a bond to help fund its $5 billion Lightspeed broadband constellation.

The senior secured notes due 2026 will be issued around April 27 as part of a debt package that will fund 60% of the project’s cost, with the remaining 40% financed through equity.

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Popping pills in space
The Apollo 7 crew with Wally Schirra (right) prior to the space sniffle disaster. Credit: NASA

And you think you've had a bad head cold.

Getting sick in space is no joke. You're stuck, surrounded by the most advanced equipment in the world, most of which is useless if you need a you didn't think to bring.

Even taking a pill has its problems as the constant radiation breaks them down.

Professor Volker Hessel is a researcher at the University of Adelaide who has sent medicine up to the International Space Station (ISS) to test how pills survive in space.

The plan is to understand how we can make space drugs that can last the 3-year trip to Mars.

In space, no one can hear you sneeze

Astronauts are extremely fit for a reason. Space is incredibly stressful to human bodies. Microgravity means astronauts lose 1–2% of their bone mass each month.

Radiation also changes astronaut DNA.

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Washington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2021
NASA has postponed the flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, the first controlled flight on another planet, to work through a software problem. The flight had been planned for Thursday and then delayed to Sunday. NASA didn't immediately set a new target date for the flight. "Our best estimate of a targeted flight date is fluid right now, but we are working toward achieving the
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Washington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2021
Russia and NASA will continue to cooperate in space in the near future, even as Russia moves to work with China on lunar exploration, experts said. Russia and China announced March 9 they will cooperate on China's planned International Scientific Lunar Station, while the United States will have no involvement in the Chinese space program under a law passed in 2011. But ultimately
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Beijing (XNA) Apr 14, 2021
China has set up an expert committee for lunar samples, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said Tuesday. According to the regulations on lunar sample management, the CNSA established the committee as an expert advisory institution for the management of lunar samples. The committee aims to give full play to the scientific value of lunar samples and standardize their manage
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Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 13, 2021
Russia has called for talks to create a legally binding international instrument that would ban the deployment of any type of weapons in space, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight. The anniversary of the first Soviet cosmonaut's flight, marking the beginning of humanity's space era, is celebrated every year in Russia a
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Beijing (XNA) Apr 14, 2021
China will continue to exert great efforts to boost aerospace as a strategic emerging industry in the next five years, a senior aerospace official said. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is drawing up a plan for the country's space development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), said Zhang Kejian, head of the CNSA. During this period, China will promote pr
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Moscow (AFP) April 13, 2021
The head of Russia's space agency used strong language to criticise US State Department members for failing to mention Yuri Gagarin in a post marking 60 years since his historic spaceflight. On Monday, Russia led by President Vladimir Putin marked the 60th anniversary of the legendary flight that made Gagarin the first human in orbit. The US State Department issued a Facebook post commem
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Orlando FL (UPI) Apr 14, 2021
Jeff Bezos' space company, Blue Origin, plans to launch Wednesday morning from Texas what may be the last test flight for its New Shepard rocket before it carries people later this year. But people will be getting into and out of the capsule atop the 60-foot-high rocket as part of the test. Liftoff is planned for 11:15 a.m. EDT from the company's spaceport near Van Horn, about 120 miles so
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 14, 2021
The Ingenuity team has identified a software solution for the command sequence issue identified on Sol 49 (April 9) during a planned high-speed spin-up test of the helicopter's rotors. Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue, concluding that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity's flight control software is the most robust path for
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Jerusalem, Israel (SPX) Apr 14, 2021
The "three-body problem," the term coined for predicting the motion of three gravitating bodies in space, is essential for understanding a variety of astrophysical processes as well as a large class of mechanical problems, and has occupied some of the world's best physicists, astronomers and mathematicians for over three centuries. Their attempts have led to the discovery of several important fi
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 14, 2021
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide an unprecedented window into the infrared universe when it launches in the mid-2020s. One of the mission's planned surveys will use a quirk of gravity to reveal thousands of new planets beyond our solar system. The same survey will also provide the best opportunity yet to definitively detect solitary small black holes for the first time

Google unveils $2bn data hub in Poland

Tuesday, 13 April 2021 12:28
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Warsaw (AFP) April 14, 2021
US tech giant Google on Wednesday launched a new cloud data hub in Warsaw - its first in Central and Eastern Europe - with an investment of nearly $2.0 billion (1.7 billion euros). Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki hailed the new hub saying it would ensure "better service from private and public entities" and strengthen security because the data would be stored in Poland. "We hope that
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Mainz, Germany (SPX) Apr 14, 2021
Extremely precise measurements are possible using atom interferometers that employ the wave character of atoms for this purpose. They can thus be used, for example, to measure the gravitational field of the Earth or to detect gravitational waves. A team of scientists from Germany has now managed to successfully perform atom interferometry in space for the first time - on board a sounding rocket.
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 11, 2021
Approaches to busy airports are often noisier and less fuel-efficient than they could be. This is because aircraft have to be configured in an individual process before touchdown. Pilots reduce speed, set flaps, extend slats and finally deploy the landing gear. However, air traffic control restricts the flight profile, and pilots often have limited information about weather conditions. Thu
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