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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - August 2016

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Sep 26, 2022

NASA's DART Mission Collides with an Asteroid

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA's) Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission clashed with an asteroid. The aircraft made history as it crashed an asteroid in the world's first planetary defence test.
The DART Mission slammed a spacecraft into the tiny moon of the asteroid Didymos, with the impact.

India's 1st Avalanche Monitoring Radar Installed in North Sikkim

The Indian Army and the Defence Geoinformatics and Research Establishment (DGRE) jointly installed the Avalanche Monitoring Radar, first of its kind in India, in north Sikkim.
Besides being used for detection of avalanches, this radar can also be employed to detect landslides.
The radar was inaugurated by Tri Shakti Corps commander, Lt Gen Tarn Kumar Aich, at one of the forward posts of the army at an altitude of 15,000 feet in north Sikkim.
This radar has the capability to detect avalanches within three seconds of their triggering and will assist in saving valuable life of troops and civilians as also vehicles in super high altitude areas.

Sep 24, 2022

Saturn's Moon Enceladus more Habitable than Previously Thought

New research presented evidence for a key building block of life on Saturn's moon Enceladus' subsurface ocean. Modelling indicated that the ocean on Enceladus is relatively rich in dissolved phosphorus, which is an essential ingredient for life.
Enceladus is one of the prime targets in humanity's search for life in our solar system. In the years since NASA's Cassini spacecraft visited the Saturn system, we have been repeatedly blown away by the discoveries made possible by the collected data.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft discovered the subsurface liquid water on Enceladus and analysed samples of plumes of ice grains and water vapour that erupted into space from cracks in the icy surface of the planet.

Sep 23, 2022

US, Russian Astronauts Blast Off For ISS

A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian-operated flight, in a rare instance of cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
Rubio is the first US astronaut to travel to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz rocket since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into pro-Western Ukraine on February 24.
Russia's only active female cosmonaut Anna Kikina is expected to travel to the orbital station in early October aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon.

Sep 22, 2022

36 OneWeb Satellites Reach at Satish Dhawan Space Centre

OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company announced the arrival of 36 satellites at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR) ahead of a planned launch from Sriharikota.
OneWeb teamed up with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the commercial arm of the national space agency Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to facilitate the launch.
With this launch, OneWeb will have over 70 per cent of its planned 'Gen 1 LEO constellation' in orbit as it progresses to deliver high-speed, low-latency connectivity services around the world.
The launch will be the company's 14th overall and the satellites will be put into orbit by the heaviest ISRO rocket, the GSLV-MkIII, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

Sep 20, 2022

United Arab Emirates to Launch First Lunar Rover in November

The United Arab Emirates will launch its first lunar rover in November, the mission manager said.
The "Rashid" rover, named for Dubai's ruling family, would be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida sometime between Nov. 9 and Nov. 15. The exact date will be announced next month.
The rover would be launched aboard a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket and deposited on the moon by a Japanese ispace lander sometime in March.
The lunar mission is part of the UAE's broader strategy to become a major player in the field of space exploration. If the moon mission succeeds, the UAE and Japan would join the ranks of only the U.S., Russia and China as nations that have put a spacecraft on the lunar surface.

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