Reshuffling of funding councils jeopardizes plans for UK academic computer network

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A planned reorganization of Britain's higher education funding councils has delayed the development of a new academic computer network, Super JANET. The Universities Funding Council (UFC) had committed $35 million to the Super JANET system, a high band-width optical fiber network that will transmit information 1,000 times faster than its predecessor, JANET. However, in Apr 1993 the UFC and the Polytechnics Colleges Funding Council will be split into four regional funding councils. Super JANET will be put on hold until the new councils agree on how to pay for it.

United Kingdom, Management, Computer networks, Information services, United Kingdom. Universities Funding Council

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Cost of cleanliness may sink European Mars mission

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The European Space Agency (ESA) may scrap plans for an unmanned Mars probe unless the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) adopts less stringent rules for preventing the contamination of other planets with terrestrial organisms. ESA says that its Marsnet mission, scheduled for 2001, will be too costly if COSPAR's present standards remain in force. COSPAR, set up by the International Council of Scientific Unions to establish the standards, will probably ease the current rules at its Aug, 1992 meeting. However, this relaxation may be too late to save Marsnet.

Standards, Planning, Space flight to Mars, Mars flights, European Space Agency, International Council of Scientific Unions

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