Diversified manufacturer Honeywell International Inc named Vimal Kapur as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He would succeed Darius Adamczyk on June 1.
Kapur, currently Honeywell's president and chief operating officer, had previously headed its building technologies unit.
Adamczyk, who became the company's CEO in 2017, will continue to serve as its executive chairman.
NASA Awards Firefly Aerospace $112 Million Contract
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) picked US-based rocket builder Firefly Aerospace for an important $112 million contract. The NASA contract is for the delivery of multiple lunar payloads to the far side of the moon in 2026. It is part of NASA's efforts to put humans on the moon.
As per the Firefly Aerospace website, this is the second task the firm has won under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
Mar 13, 2023
SpaceX 'Endurance' Crew Returns to Earth after 5-Months aboard Space Station
NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 returned to Earth after a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
The SpaceX "Endurance" capsule carried Koichi Wakata of Japan, Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada.
It splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida.
Crew-5, which launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral in early October 2022, was the fifth mission in space for Wakata and the first for Cassada, Kikina and Mann -- who also became the first Native American woman in space.
Mar 11, 2023
ISRO Receives Indo-US Jointly Developed NISAR Satellite
The US Air Force handed over NISAR, an earth observation satellite jointly developed by NASA and ISRO, to the Indian space agency.
The satellite is an outcome of a collaboration between the American space agency NASA and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
NISAR will be used by ISRO for a variety of purposes including agricultural mapping, and landslide-prone areas.
The satellite is expected to be launched in 2024 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh, into a near-polar orbit.
Mar 10, 2023
ISRO Brings Down Decommissioned Weather Satellite Megha-Tropiques-1
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought down the decommissioned weather satellite Megha-Tropiques-1 in a controlled manner and burned up in the atmosphere.
The ISRO carried out a series of 20 manoeuvres from August 2022 to slowly lower the satellite's orbit, expending the 120 kg fuel that remained unutilised even at the end of the mission life.
Megha-Tropiques-1 was launched into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on October 12, 2011, as a joint mission developed by ISRO and the French space agency, CNES, for tropical weather and climate studies. The mission was initially planned to operate for three years, but it was extended later as it continued to deliver key data about the climate for a decade.
Mar 09, 2023
HCL Technologies Partners Microsoft to Bring Quantum Computing to Clients
IT services firm, HCL Technologies, announced a partnership with Azure Quantum, Microsoft's quantum cloud computing service. Through this partnership, HCLTech will offer cloud-based quantum computing services to businesses using Microsoft's platform as a technology stack.
The services will be provided through HCLtech's Q-Labs, which is already one of Microsoft's partners offering Azure Quantum Credit.
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