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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - January 2016

Jan 2016

Oct 16, 2022

CERT-In and Power-CSIRTs Jointly Conduct Cyber Security Exercise "PowerEX-2022"

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in collaboration with Power-CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams in Power sector), successfully designed & conducted the Cyber Security Exercise "PowerEX" for 193 invited Power Sector Utilities. The Exercise Planner Team of Power-CSIRTs' officials worked along with CERT-In team on the exercise day as Exercise Coordinators. The Objective of the exercise was to "Recognize, Analyse & Respond to Cyber Incident in IT & OT Systems".
The theme of the exercise was "Defending Cyber induced disruption in IT & OT infrastructure". Exercise "PowerEX" was hosted by CERT-In on its exercise simulation platform. Around 350+ official from various Power Sector Utilities participated in the event. Exercise "PowerEX" was successful in meeting its objectives and helped the participants to learn, practice and respond to cyber security incidents.

Oct 15, 2022

President Droupadi Murmu Inaugurates Supercomputer Facility at IIT Guwahati

President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated a supercomputer facility at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
Called Param-Kamrupa, the facility would be able to conduct advanced research in various scientific fields. She also inaugurated a high power active and passive component laboratory called SAMEER at the institute.
Param-Kamrupa is a state-of-the-art supercomputer set up under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). With this facility, IIT Guwahati will be able to carry out research on weather and climate, bioinformatics, computational chemistry, molecular dynamics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, data science, etc.

Oct 14, 2022

NASA's Dragonfly Rotorcraft

NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft is scheduled to reach the Selk Crater region on Saturn's moon Titan in the year 2034. Scientists have characterised the landscape of this region by analysing radar images of the area acquired by the Cassini spacecraft during its 13 years of exploring the Saturn system. In short, it is a patchwork of sand dunes and broken-up ice.
As per NASA, Titan is an ideal destination to study astrobiology, prebiological chemistry and the potential habitability of an extraterrestrial world. This is because it is an ocean world dominated by water and ice with a carbon-rich chemistry. The moon has a subsurface ocean of liquid water, methane lakes and rivers on the surface.

Oct 13, 2022

Adani Data Networks Gets Licence For Full Fledge Telecom Services

Adani Data Network was granted unified licence for access services, which enables it to provide all telecom services in the country.
Adani Group entered the telecom sector after buying spectrum in the recent auction.
Adani Data Networks Ltd (ADNL), a unit of Adani Enterprises Ltd, acquired the right to use 400MHz of spectrum in the 26GHz millimetre wave band worth Rs. 212 crore for 20 years in the recent 5G spectrum auction.
The Adani Group had said that it plans to use the airwaves for its data centres as well as the super app it is building to support businesses from electricity distribution to airports, and gas retailing to ports.

Oct 12, 2022

China Launches ASO-S Satellite to Study the Sun and Space Weather

After successfully integrating its under-construction Space Station and approving the next phase of its lunar missions, China launched a new observatory that will look into the sun. The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) was launched onboard a Long March-2D rocket.
Nicknamed Kuafu-1, after a giant in Chinese mythology who chased the sun, the observatory was placed in an orbit about 720 kilometres above the planet, higher than the orbit of the International Space Station. The observatory, which is about 859 kilograms, lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China.
With the satellite now placed into orbit, a six-month-long commissioning phase will begin, after which science operations will commence. The spacecraft would study the causality between the solar magnetic field and two major eruptive phenomena: solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

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