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Nov 07, 2017

Two Navigation Satellites Launched

China, which is building its own navigation system to rival United States GPS, has launched two BeiDou-3 satellites into space through a single carrier rocket.
The two newly-launched satellites represent the third phase of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.
If everything goes according to the plan, China will become the third country in the world after the US and Russia to operate its own navigation system.

Oct 31, 2017

ISRO Announces Launch of Cartosat-2

After launching its earth observation satellite Cartosat-2 along with 30 co-passenger satellites in June this year, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to flag off the satellite once again, this time with 28 foreign satellites riding piggy-back in December.
There will be 25 nano satellites and three micro satellites from the US and other countries as co-passengers along the space firm's own satellite of the Cartosat-2 series.

Oct 28, 2017

World's First Robot with a Citizenship

Saudi Arabia has become the first country in the world to grant a citizenship to a robot named Sophia.
Sophia, the female robot, has been developed by a Hong Kong firm called Hanson Robots.
This move has been taken to promote the country as a place that has taken Artificial Intelligence to a totally different level.

Oct 27, 2017

Jurassic-era `fish lizard' fossil found in India

A near-completely fossilized skeleton of Jurassic-era ichthyosaur a type of marine reptile or `fish lizard' in Greek that lived alongside dinosaur has been discovered for the first time in India from Kutch district of Gujarat.The 5.5-metre-long skeleton was discovered in January 2016 by a team of Indo-German geologists near the Kaas hills on the outskirts of Bhuj town. At that time, it was believed to be fossil of a dinosaur. However, after studying the fossil for more than a year, the experts have concluded that the fossil was of ichthyosaur from the Jurassic era and was the first to be found in India.

The present ichthyosaur find represents the first nearly complete articulated skeleton of an ichthyosaur from India and the first record from the Jurassic of India.

Oct 26, 2017

Bloodhound Supersonic Car

The British car designed to go 1,000mph (1,610km/h) will make its first public runs in Cornwall later.
Bloodhound SSC is conducting initial slow-speed trials and should get up to about 200mph (320km/h) on the runway at Newquay Airport.
Driven by RAF Wing Commander Andy Green, the car aims to break the world land speed record in 2019.
This will take place on a special track that has been prepared on a dried-out lakebed in Northern Cape, South Africa.

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