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Datius Dapartment of Space Travel

The DASP (Datius Air and Space Program) today launched a rocket into space to establish a space station which is built so we can research into the planet of Mars, this Space station is to be equipped with 2 Hell's Wraith Nukes, several varied Nuclear bombs and smaller ammunition and is located for several broadcasting sattelites to float into the space station if it needs repairing...

This multi-purposed Space station has a total cost of DD 1,500,000,000 ($2,000,000,000) and is a revolution in space technology it will take a total of 1 month (1 day) to build and will be able to stay up there for a minimum of 100 years

This top of the Range Space station has cost a possible 1/6 of the Datium Government's budjet and is a huge investment, recent tests have been carried out and the devastation the one nuke from the space-craft would cause devastating affects, but President Laing has made a deal with the UN in that these bombs will only be used if the other side has threatened with nuclear war themselves... The ALPHA 1 force will be stationed there and carry out all operations

if your nation wishes to have your sattelites repaired annually by the DASP SS Laing then you can pay the sum of $1,000,000,000 to the Bank of Datium (BoD)

And Recently elected President Marios has placed Ryan Laing MP as Head of the new Space Ministry... the new Space Minister will work in the new building in Frughald Square on Thursday and the new, biggest industry in Datium has there own department in Parliament!

Signed

Henry Frederickson (President of DASP)
Djimi Marios (President of Datium)
Ryan Laing (Space Minister)

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Datium launches antediluvian spacecraft

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Datium, a hitherto unknown nation, launched several rockets into space over the past few weeks in an effort to build a space station in Martian orbit.

The satellites, estimated to be no more than twelve in number, perform weather and spatial observation tasks, limited in capacity compared to the vast, three-thousand satellite Londinian space programme, which is capable of everything from telecommunications to military observation to global positioning, in addition to the highly sophisticated space stations and starships under Londinian possession.

Datian manned incursions into space have recently begun, a development which, to some, is troubling.

"Whilst we welcome scientific development internationally, an irresponsible nation new to space-flight could significantly damage the cosmos near Terra [Earth]," an LSA (Londinian Space Agency) spokesman say. "Debris, garbage, abandoned or damaged craft - all of that could threaten our lunar colony in addition to our space station approximately two hundred thousand kilometres in orbit, Taikong I (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/External_view_of_a_Bernal_sphere.jpg/800px-External_view_of_a_Bernal_sphere.jpg), home to nearly ten thousand Londinians.

Londinian space experts have requested that the Datian government allow teams of spationauts [Londinian astronauts] to assist their space programme in developing and abiding by safety protocols and programs.

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we welcome your prescence, you can try any safety checks as you want... we have poured everything into this with the best worksmen building it and wish to only use the military force in self defence.

New 'super-Earth' found in space

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The new planet is not much bigger than the Earth

Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface.
The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra.

Scientists made the discovery using the Eso 3.6m Telescope in the new Datius Space Station "SS Laing".

They say the benign temperatures on the planet mean any water there could exist in liquid form, and this raises the chances it could also harbour life.

"We have estimated that the mean temperature of this 'super-Earth' lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid," explained Stephane Udry of the Jevkay Observatory, lead author of the scientific paper reporting the result.

'Is there life anywhere else?' is a fundamental question we all ask

Alison Boyle
Datium Science Museum
"Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth's radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky - like our Earth - or covered with oceans."

Xavier Delfosse, a member of the team from Grenoble University, added: "Liquid water is critical to life as we know it."

He believes the planet may now become a very important target for future space missions dedicated to the search for extra-terrestrial life.

These missions will put telescopes in space that can discern the tell-tale light "signatures" that might be associated with biological processes.

The observatories would seek to identify trace atmospheric gases such as methane, and even markers for chlorophyll, the pigment in Earth plants that plays a critical role in photosynthesis.

'Indirect' detection

The exoplanet - as astronomers call planets around a star other than the Sun - is the smallest yet found, and has been given the designation Gliese 581 c.

It completes a full orbit of its parent star in just 13 days.

Signed

Ryan Laing (Space Minister)

Scientists in the Democratical Republic of Datium say that initial data from a new way of scanning Mars has shown up to half of the Red Planet's surface may contain ice.

The new method of scanning for water offers vastly more accurate readings than before, they say.

The data could prove vital for the Phoenix Mars Mission which launches this August and which will put a lander on the surface to dig for ice.

The new data shows wide variation as to how deep below the surface ice exists.

Seasonal changes

The deposits - far beyond the ice that is known to exist in the planet's North Pole - could be so large that were they to melt, they would deluge the planet in water forming an ocean.

Up until now, scientists had been able to search for water deposits using a spectrometer fixed to the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

It is a device that measures gamma rays coming from a planet to detect different materials.

However, only readings that are accurate to within several hundred kilometres can be obtained.

Now Dr Joshua Bandfield of Regalton State University has devised a new method for detecting ice.

By comparing seasonal changes in thermal infrared patterns, detected by the same DT-2007-1 spacecraft, he says he can make readings accurate to within just hundreds of metres.

Dr Bandfield said water ice in terms of surface area would be "probably roughly a third to a half".

Though there is plenty of water ice, the new thermal imaging data also shows that there is considerable variation across the planet in terms of how far down ice can be found.

Signed

R. Laing (Space Minister)

NASA Astronauts 'Sloshed In Space'
Updated: 17:49, Friday July 27, 2007

NASA let astronauts fly drunk on at least two occasions, an independent panel has said in a new report.
The report claims officials let the astronauts go into space despite flight surgeons and fellow astronauts raising concerns that flight safety might be jeopardized.