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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - February 2017

Feb 2017

Nov 12, 2022

BSNL Gets Centre's Nod to Sign Rs. 26,821 crore 4G Deal with TCS

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) received the central government's nod to go ahead with Rs. 26,281 crore deal with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), paving its way to launch 4G services in India.
TCS will set up the 4G lines and maintain the network for nine years.
BSNL will give Rs. 10,000 crore worth of purchase orders to TCS. With this, the state-run telco will aim to launch its 4G services by December 2022 or January 2023.
Tata Sons' unit Tejas Network will manufacture the equipment locally for BSNL.

Nov 11, 2022

ISRO Increases Carrying Capacity of its GSLV-MkIII Rocket by 450kg

Indian space agency (ISRO) increased the carrying capacity of its LVM3 (GSLV MkIII) rocket by 450 kg with additional propellant loading of its cryogenic engine CE20.
According to ISRO, the CE20 cryogenic engine indigenously developed for LVM3 has been subjected to successful hot test at an uprated thrust level of 21.8 tonne for the first time earlier in November.

Nov 09, 2022

India's First Private Rocket to be Launched between November 12-16

According to Hyderabad-based space star-tup Skyroot Aerospace, India's first privately developed rocket Vikram-S -- is set for a launch in a sub-orbital mission with three payloads between November 12 and 16.
The maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named 'Prarambh' (the beginning), will carry two Indian and one foreign customer payloads and is set for launch from Indian Space Research Organisation's launchpad at Sriharikota.
Spacekidz, a Chennai-based aerospace startup, will fly 'Fun-Sat', a 2.5 kg payload developed by students from India, the US, Singapore and Indonesia on the sub-orbital flight on board Vikram-S.

Google Launches 'FloodHub', a Platform to Forecast Flood

Google, an American technology giant, launched a platform that displays flood forecasts, namely 'FloodHub'. This platform shows the area and time where floods could occur, in order to inform people about the natural calamity and authorities can assist them with effectively.
The technology giant also expanded its AI flood forecasting services to 18 counties across Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. To recall, these flood forecasting services supported by AI were first introduced in India back in 2018.

Nov 08, 2022

ISRO Plans to Return to Mars and Work with Japan to Examine the Moon's Dark Side

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) turned its attention to Venus and is collaborating with Japan to examine the moon's dark side, following trips to the moon and Mars. ISRO's next mission at the Akash Tattva conference was that the space agency also intended to send a probe to Mars.
A Japanese rocket will launch an ISRO-built lunar lander and rover into orbit with a planned landing site close to the south pole of the moon.
The rover will then move to the area of the moon that is always in shadow and never receives sunlight.

Nov 03, 2022

SpaceX Launches World's most Powerful Rocket 'Falcon Heavy' on Space Force Mission

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most-powerful active rocket, lifted off for the first time in more than three years through dense fog at Florida's Cape Canaveral, with Elon Musk's company sending satellites into orbit for the U.S. Space Force.
The rocket system, consisting of three Falcon 9 boosters strapped side-by-side, took off from a SpaceX launch pad, with two satellites from the Space Force and a group of smaller satellites bound for orbit.
This mission marked the first use of the rocket by the Space Force, a U.S. military branch established under former President Donald Trump to oversee much of the Pentagon's defense activities in space.

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