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Nov 16, 2017

Meteorological Satellite Fengyun-3D Launched

China launched a new meteorological satellite, Fengyun-3D. The satellite was launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi province.
Fengyun-3D is one of China's second generation of Polar-Orbiting Meteorological Satellites, which can provide global three dimensional all-weather and multi-spectral remote sensing images.
The satellite will form a network with the Fengyun-3C satellite.

Nov 10, 2017

Chinese Space Station to Crash

According to the European Space Agency, a Chinese space station could smash into a major city early next year.
Experts claimed that the 8.5-tonne Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace”, has gone out of control and headed towards the earth.
The station would crash between January and March.

Automatic Weather Station on Ben Nevis

Researchers have installed an automatic meteorological station on Ben Nevis (the highest mountain in the British Isles) that digitally collects information on temperatures, wind speeds and rainfall levels.

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.

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