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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - November 2017

Nov 2017

Jun 18, 2025

World's Largest Digital Camera is about to Release its First Pictures

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera—the world's largest and most powerful digital camera is all set to reveal its first stunning images of the universe on June 23. This marks the start of its ambitious mission: to create an ultra-HD timelapse of the night sky over the next ten years.
The telescope, which has been over two decades in the making, is designed to create the ultimate movie of the night sky using the largest camera ever built, repeatedly scanning the sky to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe.

Jun 16, 2025

China Blasts Laser 80,000 Miles to the Moon in Broad Daylight - A First in Space History

In a groundbreaking achievement for space exploration, China successfully fired a precision laser from Earth, sending it 80,778 miles (130,000 kilometres) to the Moon and back in broad daylight. This remarkable feat, accomplished by the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL), marks the world's first successful Earth-to-Moon laser-ranging shot under sunlight. This advancement is expected to bolster China's ambitions in lunar exploration and deep-space missions.

Jun 11, 2025

China Starts Producing World-First Non-Binary AI Chips

China started mass production of the world's first non-binary AI chips, adding this new technology to important industries like aviation and manufacturing.
The new chip merges conventional binary logic with stochastic, or probabilistic, logic to offer an alternative method for data processing. Importantly, the chip avoids reliance on US-restricted components.

Jun 09, 2025

Starlink Gets Green Light to Launch Satellite Internet in India

In a major boost to satellite-based internet connectivity in India, Elon Musk's Starlink secured the Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) licence from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). With this approval, Starlink becomes the third company authorised to provide satellite communication services in India, alongside Bharti Airtel-backed OneWeb and Reliance Jio's Satellite Communications. The company is expected to receive trial spectrum within 15–20 days to demonstrate its technical and security compliance before commencing full-scale operations.

Jun 06, 2025

Ispace's RESILIENCE Lunar Lander Crashes

A Japanese private spacecraft, owned by Tokyo-based ispace, crashed in a failed lunar landing attempt in the Mare Frigoris area, the second moonshot failure for the company. The RESILIENCE lunar lander lost contact while descending, prompting ispace to call off the mission as a failure.

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