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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - November 2016

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Sep 27, 2022

HAL Sets Up Rocket Engine Manufacturing Facility for ISRO

The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited set up a Rs. 208 crore Integrated Cryogenic Engine Manufacturing Facility (ICMF) at Bengaluru that would cater to the entire rocket engine production under one roof for Indian Space Research Organisation.
President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the state-of-the-art ICMF, set up over an area of 4,500 square metres housing over 70 hi-tech equipment and testing facilities for manufacturing cryogenic (CE20) and semi-cryogenic (SE2000) engines of Indian rockets.
In 2013, an MOU was signed with ISRO for establishing the facility for manufacturing cryogenic engine modules at HAL, Aerospace Division, and it was subsequently amended in 2016 for setting up of ICMF.

ISRO Develops Microprocessor-controlled Smart Limbs

A space tech spin-off from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is expected to help above-knee amputees to walk with a comfortable gait. The microprocessor-controlled knees (MPKs) being developed by the space agency offer extended capabilities for the amputee than those offered by the passive limbs that do not use microprocessors.
The 'smart' MPKs are being developed by ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (NILD), Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya National Institute for Persons with Physical Disabilities, and the Artificial Limb Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO).

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.

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