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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - September 2018

Sep 2018

Jul 03, 2019

NASA Tests Launch-abort System

NASA carried out a successful test of a launch-abort system for a capsule designed to take US astronauts to the moon.
The test was carried out at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The exercise aimed to test in almost real-life conditions the evacuation of astronauts from the Orion capsule in the event of an explosion or other problem shortly after launch of the rocket taking them into space.

Jun 29, 2019

HP Launches Dual Screen Gaming Laptop

To tap the growing demand for gaming PCs in the country, HP launched the world's first dual-screen gaming laptop, Omen X 2S, in India with a price tag of almost Rs. 2.1 lakh.
The dual-screen would allow players to message friends on WhatsApp, browse in Spotify, watch Twitch, YouTube, and serve as a hub for Omen Command Centre software.
It would also enable gamers to copy the map portion of a racing game to the second screen.

Jun 28, 2019

NASA to Explore Saturn's Moon Titan

The US space agency NASA announced that it would launch a spacecraft in 2026 to explore the richly organic world of Titan, an analogue to the very early Earth.
A rotorcraft called "Dragonfly" would arrive at the Saturn`s moon in 2034, looking for prebiotic chemical processes common on both Titan and Earth, which may lend clues to how life may have arisen on Earth.
Titan, the second largest moon in the solar system, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a nitrogen-based golden atmosphere, four times denser than Earth`s.

Jun 26, 2019

NASA astronauts, Space Station Crew Mates Return to Earth

NASA astronaut Anne McClain, veteran cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and Canadian Space Agency record-holder David Saint-Jacques emerged from the space craft to applause from support crews, after touching down near the Kazakh city of Dzhezkazgan.
The trio's launch on December 3, 2018 was the first after a Soyuz rocket carrying Russia's Aleksey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague failed in October (2018) just minutes after blast-off, forcing the pair to make an emergency landing.

SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Rocket

SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying 24 experimental satellites in what Elon Musk's rocket company called one of the most difficult launches it has attempted.
The mission, dubbed Space Test Program 2 (STP-2), is the third for the Falcon Heavy rocket, which SpaceX describes as the most powerful launch system in the world.
The company put satellites into orbit for agencies including NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), defense department laboratories, universities and a non-profit organisation.

Jun 25, 2019

Tech Mahindra Unveils K2

Tech Mahindra Ltd introduced K2, the first Human Resource (HR) Humanoid, for its Noida Special Economic Zone Campus in Uttar Pradesh, after unveiling it in its Hyderabad campus earlier this month.
K2 would take over the routine HR transactions to provide constant assistance to the HR team in creating an enhanced employee experience.
K2 leverages state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and initiates conversation without any need for wake-up commands.
It can respond to queries with text display along with speech and can address general HR-related employee queries as well as handle personal requests for actions like providing payslip, tax forms and more.

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