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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - December 2018

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Nov 18, 2022

NASA's Launches Artemis Mission Successfully

NASA launched the Artemis I mission from Florida, with the agency's most powerful rocket ever kicking off a nearly month-long journey with a ground-shaking liftoff.
While no astronauts are onboard, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carried the Orion capsule to space in a demonstration for NASA's lunar program. Artemis I will not land on the moon, but the spacecraft will orbit nearby before returning to Earth in 26 days.
According to NASA, this demonstration will help provide operational experience and performance data that cannot come from ground simulations. This will help in rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking and undocking operations, which will start with Artemis III.
The Artemis 1 flight test is aimed at demonstrating the performance and gathering engineering data of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. An important part of Orion's mission will be when it re-enters Earth at speeds of more than 40,000 kilometres per hour.

Nov 17, 2022

Three Indian Cities among Largest Data Centre Markets in Asia-Pacific

According to a report by Knight Frank, Indian cities, namely – Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi, emerged as the top three data centre markets in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. As a result, cities like Hyderabad, New Delhi and Chennai registered significant data centre market growth, with approximately 300MW to 400MW of IT capacity either live, committed or under construction in each location.
Meanwhile, owning to the strong market fundamentals and an increasing trend towards greater localisation of data centre facilities, emerging markets like Osaka, Melbourne, Jakarta, Manila, Hanoi, Taipei, Hyderabad, New Delhi, and Chennai, grew from just under 700 MW 5-years ago, to currently over 3,000 MW, registering a whopping 300 per cent growth in capacity.
The report further noted that the data centre industry in India has been on a high growth trajectory, partly driven by government policies, including easier access to credit and other incentives to boost data centre investment.

Nov 15, 2022

DigiLocker Integrated with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

DigiLocker has successfully integrated with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, so that users can digitally store their health records and link them with their Ayushman Bharat health account.
Its aim is digital empowerment of citizens by providing access to authentic digital documents.
The issued documents in the DigiLocker system are deemed to be at par with the original physical documents. With this, users can now utilize DigiLocker as a Personal Health Records app.

Nov 14, 2022

UN Announces High-tech, Satellite-based Global Methane Detection System

As part of global efforts to slow climate change by tackling methane, the UN announced a new satellite-based system to detect emissions of the climate warming gas and allow governments and businesses to respond.
The Methane Alert and Response System (MARS), launched at the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, is a data-to-action platform set up as part of the UNEP International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) strategy to get policy-relevant data into the right hands for emissions mitigation.
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, contributing at least a quarter of today's climate warming. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we must cut methane emissions at least 30% by 2030 – the goal of the Global Methane Pledge – to keep the 1.5°C temperature limit within reach.

Nov 12, 2022

BSNL Gets Centre's Nod to Sign Rs. 26,821 crore 4G Deal with TCS

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) received the central government's nod to go ahead with Rs. 26,281 crore deal with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), paving its way to launch 4G services in India.
TCS will set up the 4G lines and maintain the network for nine years.
BSNL will give Rs. 10,000 crore worth of purchase orders to TCS. With this, the state-run telco will aim to launch its 4G services by December 2022 or January 2023.
Tata Sons' unit Tejas Network will manufacture the equipment locally for BSNL.

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