Four Russian and two European Space Agency (ESA) volunteers embarked on a 105-day long simulated mission to Mars to assist prepare for such type of real space trip. The six crews entered a dedicated isolation facility 31 March in Moscow at the Institute of Biomedical Problems.

ESA Participants:

1. Oliver Knickel
2. Cyrille Fournier

Russian Crewmembers:

1. Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyez
2. Cosmonauts Sergei Ryazansky
3. Dr. Alexei Baranov
4. Sports Physiologist Alexei Shpakov

Facilities of the Journey:

• The crew will get experience all aspects of a mission to Mars
• Get launch
• Outward journey, arrival at Mars and, after an excursion to the surface

ESA officials told that they would have to cope with simulated emergencies and communication delays of as long as 20 minutes. They said the project is designed and planed to assess the effects that isolation has on different psychological and physiological aspects like:

• Stress
• Hormone regulation
• Immunity
• Sleep quality
• Mood
• Effectiveness of dietary supplements

The 105-day study heads a 520-day simulated mission to Mars, owing to start late the year 2009.

We got a report from a site that Bangladesh government has banned YouTube along with some other sites like esnips, uploadmp3. Though, those are not any confirmed source. These types of report say that, Bangladesh government is using cheap firewall tricks to block some Social Media sites for Audio, Video, and news site. In recent times some leaked out Audio conversation between Prime Minister Shekh Hasina and Bangladesh Army was hosted in these sites. Instead of reporting to these sites government has banned them.

In the beginning lots of people and different media of Bangladesh reported these problems and they thought it might be some server problems. YouTube, eSnips etc are very popular and helpful services all over the world and Bangladesh is not dissimilar from them. If Bangladesh government thinks any particular Audio and Video harmful for their society they could straightly ask for YouTube to remove them.

Now every Bangladeshi wishes that their government will realize the situation very soon and remove any kind of blockage to these sites.

Last Update: YouTube is finally unblocked in Bangladesh after 4 days.

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NASA announced to study the Earth’s carbon dioxide were dealt a setback few days ago when a satellite failed to reach orbit. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite lifted off about 4:55 a.m. 24 February, from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Respective officials said to media it appeared that the satellite failed to part from its Taurus XL launch vehicle. NASA thinks that the satellite crashed in the Pacific Ocean near Antarctica. Though the rocket contained hydrazine fuel, but NASA said they did not consider the fuel posed any risks to humans. The spacecraft weighed just about 1,000 pounds. It was protected by a clamshell-shaped cover. The cover was supposed to separate but in fact did not.

Officials said they would immediately form a team of investigators try to find out the cause of the failure after some rounds of thorough testing indicated the satellite and booster were ready for launch. If the launch were successful, it would have sent one of Orbital Sciences’ LEOStar-2 spaceships approximately 400 miles above Earth to measure carbon dioxide around the clock with a single device. The observatory would have helped collect necessary information and sufficient data that could have helped scientists learn more about global warming by pinpointing areas where the gas builds up.

NASA’s scientists and experts believe that carbon dioxide is concentrated in the atmosphere at around 380 parts per million and rapidly increasing. On the other hand, ground base stations and aircraft collect a number of information about the sources and areas of highest concentration. However, NASA hoped to map concentrations around the globe every 16 days during the next two years.

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When entire world are anxious about the security of Pak nuclear arsenal then Paris has offered Islamabad civilian nuclear technology like what India obtained. Pak Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said “France has agreed to transfer civilian nuclear technology to Pakistan. They have agreed that Pakistan should be treated like India”

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari that Pakistan should have an inclusive deal, too and buy nuclear device like the one got by India. Foreign Minister said Paris had agreed to afford 300 million Euros in aid to Pakistan as well. Besides, 12 million Euros would be provided for the thousands of victims who had been shelter-less by the recent Swat military operation.

An official of French President’s office said Paris is anxious about the security of Pak’s nuclear arsenal. Paris wants Islamabad to strengthen security around its all nuclear establishments. However, he snubbed to comment on the concept of an India-style nuclear contract.

Qureshi said “We will assure the world that we are an important and a responsible nuclear power and we can handle these matters without threatening or endangering anyone.” He added” Pakistan has no issues with the IAEA. We are willing to give international guarantees. We want the world to feel secure, and Pakistan will give all necessary guarantees.”

Qureshi said Islamabad already has a wide-ranging security system for its exclusive nuclear arsenal. He added Pakistan administrations are keen to give guarantees for getting secured nuclear arsenal to the global community.

India’s on going mobile sector keeping its constituency in recent years. As GSM mobile phone operators of the country maintained the fast paced network expansion. According to a statement they added 8.12 million new subscribers in December 2008. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said, the overall base of GSM subscribers has recently crossed the 250 million-mark and stands at 257.85 million as on 31, December, 2008. The statement said in December 2008 the total subscriber base in all the four metros combined stood at 37 million a go up of 2.30% from 36 million in the month before.

There are there circles in the telecom sector. In the telecom circle ‘A’ that covers Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu the GSM mobile subscribers increased 3.12% from 89 million in November to 92 million in December. On the other hand, in category ‘B’ telecom service area comprising of Kerala, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh (West), Uttar Pradesh (East), Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar islands; a 3.56% raise was noted in the subscriber figure. COAI said the subscriber base stood at 95 million in December as compared to 92 million in the month before. There was a 3.83% rise in the GSM subscriber base in circle ‘C’ from 31 million in November to 32 million in December. Circle ‘C’ cover Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Assam, Bihar, northeast and Jammu and Kashmir. The investor hopes that the rising of user will be continue in this year.