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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - October 2018

Oct 2018

Jun 13, 2023

Govt. Inks Pact with 3 Nations to Share Digital Payment Tech

India signed agreements with Armenia, Sierra Leone and Suriname on sharing successful digital solutions to be implemented in these countries.
The MoUs were signed at the Global Digital Public Infrastructure summit and exhibition, which was inaugurated at Pune by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MoS (Electronics and Information Technology).
Around 50 countries and 150 foreign delegates participated. Nine countries — Suriname, Armenia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Antigua and Barbuda, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Malawi and Trinidad and Tobago — took part at the ministerial level. The summit was part of the third meeting of Digital Economy Working Group of G20.

Jun 12, 2023

Microsoft Launches Voice Chat Feature to AI-powered Bing Chat

Microsoft launched a new 'voice chat' feature to its AI-powered Bing Chat on the desktop, which lets users talk to the AI chatbot by clicking on the microphone icon in the Bing Chat box.
Currently, the voice chat feature supports five languages -- English, Japanese, French, German, and Mandarin.
As per the company, Bing Chat also supports text-to-speech answers, which will respond to your questions in its own voice.

Jun 11, 2023

Tata Elxsi Partners with ISRO to Develop Crew Recovery Models for Gaganyaan Mission

Tata Elxsi partnered with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the upcoming Gaganyaan Mission. The leading global engineering company has designed and developed the crew module recovery models (CMRM) for the recovery team training of the space mission.
ISRO's Gaganyaan project envisions a demonstration of human spaceflight capability by launching the crew into a 400-kilometer orbit for a three-day mission and safely bringing them to Earth by landing in Indian sea waters. One of the key requirements of this project is the safe recovery of the crew, which must be carried out with minimum lapse of time.
Tata Elxsi executed activities from developing the design configuration in accordance with the initial requirements provided by ISRO, to carrying out structural analysis for various load cases, material procurement and testing, fabrication, carrying out load tests, and transportation of the CMRM and the ground support fixture (GSF).
The project marked Tata Elxsi's foray into the mechanical design for space, as this is the first time ISRO has outsourced the mechanical design and development work for a critical system to an external partner.

Jun 10, 2023

Chandrayaan-3 Intended to be Launched Between July 12-19

India's third Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-3 will have an orbiter (designated as Propulsion Module), but this orbiter won't carry scientific payloads, as was done during Chandrayaan-2. This means that the orbiter weighs lesser than that of its predecessor. However, the payload mass reduced from the orbiter has been added to the Chandrayaan-3 Lunar lander. The Indian Lunar spacecraft comprises three parts - Orbiter, Lander, and Rover.
Addressing media on the sidelines of ISRO's maiden International Conference on Spacecraft Mission Operations, the Chief of the Indian Space Agency said that Chandrayaan-3 is to be launched in the 1-week window that begins on July 12th, if all were to go as per plan.
Deep space missions are launched within a specific window (period of time), keeping in mind various factors including the dynamic position of the destination (with respect to Earth), the time taken to travel to the destination, the steps involved, the rocket being used, the purpose of the mission, the movement and impact of other heavenly bodies, etc.

Jun 09, 2023

GalaxEye to Launch World's 1st Multi-sensorearth Observation Satellite

An IIT-Madras-incubated space-tech start-up, GalaxEye, is building the world's first multi-sensor earth observation satellite with the help of a visible spectrum camera providing synchronised imaging that can take multiple images at the same time. The start-up is going to launch its first satellite, 'Drishti Mission' next year.
Founded in 2020 by Suyash Singh, Denil Chawda, Kishan Thakkar, Pranit Mehta, Rakshit Bhatt and Prof S. R. Chakravarthy, GalaxEye is working on deploying a satellite constellation with a first-of-its-kind sensor based on data fusion to provide the most comprehensive imagery dataset from space.

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