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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - December 2018

Dec 2018

Sep 12, 2023

Next is Samudrayaan: Union Minister Rijiju Shares Pictures of Submersible Matsya 6000

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju shared pictures of 'Matsya 6000', a submersible which is in preparation for exploring the deep oceans as part of India's 'Samudrayaan Mission' being developed by the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in Chennai, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences. After achieving a successful 'soft-landing' on the Moon's south pole, India is now aiming to send three humans to a depth of 6 km into the ocean for deep-sea exploration and biodiversity assessments.

Sep 10, 2023

UK Rejoins EU Science Research Scheme Horizon

Britain said it would rejoin the European Union's flagship Horizon science research programme, ending a two-year post-Brexit standoff with the EU over science funding.
The agreement, which excludes the EU's Euratom nuclear research scheme, signals a further improvement in bilateral relations seven months after a dispute over trade was resolved, and was welcomed by British scientists.
Under a Brexit trade agreement signed at the end of 2020, Britain negotiated access to a range of EU science and innovation programmes, including Horizon, the EU's largest funding programme for researchers with an annual budget of 95.5 billion euros ($102 billion).
The EU blocked Britain's participation because of a row over post-Brexit trade rules governing the British province of Northern Ireland, but 2023 February's resolution of that dispute opened the door to Britain rejoining Horizon Europe.

Sep 08, 2023

NASA's MOXIE Experiment Completes Mission, Successfully Generates Oxygen on Mars

American space agency NASA announced that its oxygen-generating experiment that accompanied the Perseverance rover successfully completed its mission and generated oxygen on the Red Planet. Developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a microwave-oven-sized device called MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilisation Experiment), generated oxygen for the 16th and final time aboard the Perseverance rover.
The tech demo successfully tested converting Martian CO₂ into oxygen, which could help pave the way for future human missions to Mars.

Sep 07, 2023

Japan Launches 'Moon Sniper' Lunar Lander SLIM into Space

Japan launched its lunar exploration spacecraft aboard a home-grown H-IIA rocket, hoping to become the world's fifth country to land on the moon early next year.
The rocket took off from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan and successfully released the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM). Unfavourable weather led to three postponements in a week last month (August 2023).
Dubbed the 'moon sniper', Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 metres of its target site on the lunar surface. The $100-million mission is expected to start the landing by February after a long, fuel-efficient approach trajectory.

Sep 05, 2023

UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi and Three Space Station Fliers Return to Earth

UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, his crewmates from NASA, Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev returned to Earth in the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
The splashdown happened in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. Al Neyadi's mission became the longest in Arab history, as Crew-6 spent 186 days in space.
On March 2, 2023 Crew-6 was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Crew-6 orbited the Earth 2,976 times and travelled 78.9 million miles. Throughout their mission, the Crew-6 astronauts welcomed seven visiting vehicles. They also carried out three spacewalks. Al Neyadi joined Bowen for a third excursion to retrieve a failed antenna package and do other maintenance.

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