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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - August 2016

Aug 2016

Dec 12, 2022

NASA's Orion Spacecraft Returns to Earth after Historic Moon Mission

NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, after a record-breaking mission, travelling more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the Moon and returning safely to Earth, completing the Artemis I flight test.
Splashdown is the final milestone of the Artemis I mission that began with a successful liftoff of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on November 16, from Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Over the course of 25.5 days, NASA tested Orion in the harsh environment of deep space before flying astronauts on Artemis II.
During the mission, Orion performed two lunar flybys, coming within 80 miles of the lunar surface. At its farthest distance during the mission, Orion travelled nearly 2,70,000 miles from our home planet, more than 1,000 times farther than where the International Space Station orbits Earth, to intentionally stress systems before flying crew.

Japanese Start-up Launches Historic Moon Mission

A Japanese start-up's spacecraft was launched to the Moon in the country's first-ever lunar mission and the first of its kind by a private company.
The launch was carried out by Elon Musk's SpaceX in Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida after two postponements for additional pre-flight checks.
The spacecraft was produced by Tokyo-based start-up ispace.
So far only the United States, Russia and China have managed to put a robot on the lunar surface.
The ispace mission is the first of a program called Hakuto-R, which means "white rabbit" in Japanese.

Dec 10, 2022

ISRO Will Develop "Spatial Data Infrastructure Geoportal 'Geo-Ladakh' for Ladakh

Ladakh approached the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), a unit of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for developing "Spatial Data Infrastructure geoportal 'Geo-Ladakh' for UT-Ladakh". This portal will be used to find, access, distribute & contribute geospatial information and its associated geographic services such as navigation, buffer, measurements analysis, metadata catalogue, map catalogue and more.
The project also aims towards training of UT-Ladakh officials on geospatial techniques and applications. The portal provides geospatial data visualization and analytics for UT-Ladakh, consisting of the spatial viewer, carbon neutrality, geospatial utility mapping and geo-tourism.

Dec 06, 2022

IIT Madras Researchers Create Device to Generate Electricity from Sea Waves

IIT Madras researchers created a device, 'Ocean Wave Energy Converter', to generate electricity from sea waves and the trials have already been successfully completed.
The device was placed at a depth of 20 metres around 6 kilometres off the coast of Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. Within the next three years, this system hopes to produce 1 MW of electricity from ocean waves.
The accomplishment of several goals, including the UN Ocean decade and sustainable development goals, will be made possible by the success of this project.
India has set goals for developing a blue economy, deep-water missions, and clean energy. It might assist India in achieving its targets to produce 500 GW of renewable electricity by 2030 in response to climate change.

Dec 05, 2022

Three Chinese Astronauts Return to Earth after Six-month Mission

Three Chinese astronauts landed in a northern desert after six months working to complete construction of the Tiangong station, a symbol of the country's ambitious space program.
A capsule carrying commander Chen Dong and astronauts Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe touched down at a landing site in the Gobi Desert in northern China.
Prior to departure, they overlapped for almost five days with three colleagues who arrived Wednesday on the Shenzhou-15 mission for their own six-month stay, marking the first time China had six astronauts in space at the same time.
The three astronauts were part of the Shenzhou-14 mission, which launched in June.

Dec 01, 2022

IISER, IIT Researchers Develop New Artificial Photosynthetic System to Capture Solar Energy

Researchers from IISER-Thiruvananthapuram and IIT-Indore developed a new artificial light-harvesting system that can efficiently capture light for power conversion by mimicking photosynthesis, the process by which plants absorb sunlight and produce sugars.
According to officials, scientists across the globe are trying to replicate the light-harvesting step of photosynthesis in engineered systems for use in solar cells or artificial leaves.

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