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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - October 2018

Oct 2018

Jan 06, 2020

Challakere to be ISRO's astronaut training hub

India's world-class facility for training astronauts will come up not in the space headquarters in Bengaluru, nor in any glitzy metropolis. It will be established in three years at Challakere, a shrubby, arid oilseeds town on the Bengaluru-Pune NH4 in Chitradurga district of Karnataka.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has proposed a ₹ 2,700-crore master plan to create top infrastructure that will house its young Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC).

Jan 05, 2020

ISRO Sets Up Academic Centre In Karnataka, To Provide ₹2 Crore Grant

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) set up a regional academic centre for space at the National Institute of Technology (NITK) at Surathkal in Karnataka's southwest Dakshina Kannada district.
The centre at NIT-K will conduct joint research and development in space technology applications to meet the needs of our space programmes.
The state-run ISRO will provide ₹2 crore grant annually to NIT for the R&D projects and promotional activities through the year.
The space agency and the engineering institute signed an agreement on the industry-academic collaboration at Surathkal, about 380km from Bengaluru.

Jan 04, 2020

Need for Revolution in Science and Tech

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged young scientists to innovate technologies that can chart a new course for the nation's development.
Addressing the scientific community at the 107th Indian Science Congress in Bengaluru, PM Modi said that young Indian scientists needed to innovate, patent, produce and prosper to address the problems of the common man.
PM Modi said that schemes like Swacch Bharat Abhiyan and Ayushmann Bharat have received worldwide praise because technology played a major role in execution of these flagship programmes. He said a strong rural economy and prosperous Medium, Small and Micro Industries are directly linked to innovations that are being developed by young scientists.

Jan 02, 2020

ISRO Identifies Four Astronauts for Gaganyaan Mission

As per ISRO, four astronauts have been identified for India's upcoming Gaganyaan mission.
The training of astronauts will begin in the third week of January in Russia.
Gaganyaan is a crewed orbital spacecraft intended to send astronauts to space for a minimum of seven days by 2022, as part of the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme.

Government to Roll Out one Nuclear Reactor Every Year

The government has decided to commission a nuclear reactor every year to boost commercial use of civil nuclear energy.
A 700-MW pressurised heavy water reactor at Kakrapar nuclear plant in Gujarat is likely to be commissioned by April.
Kakrapar-3 is likely to be commissioned in mid-2020. Kakrapar-4 by mid-2021 and RAPP-7 by mid-2022 in Rajasthan's Rawatbhata. Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd's (NPCIL's) 22 reactors with installed capacity of 6780 MW are operational.
Kaiga-1 (KGS-1) reactor has set 962 days of continuous and non-interrupted operation, which is a world record." He said Tarapur atomic power reactors — Units 1 and 2 — completed 50 years of operation this year. The two boiling water reactors — the first in the country — were commissioned in October 1969.

Jan 01, 2020

India to Launch Third Moon Mission

India will launch its third mission to the moon in the year 2020, confirmed Minister of State for Department of Space Jitendra Singh. With just a lander and rover, Chandrayaan-3 will attempt a soft landing on the moon again.
Chandrayaan-2 mission was India's first attempt to land on a celestial body. The country's second mission to moon went awry in the last 2.1 km of its journey when its lander Vikram hard landed just 500 metres from the chosen landing site in September 2019.

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