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Nov 11, 2022

ISRO Increases Carrying Capacity of its GSLV-MkIII Rocket by 450kg

Indian space agency (ISRO) increased the carrying capacity of its LVM3 (GSLV MkIII) rocket by 450 kg with additional propellant loading of its cryogenic engine CE20.
According to ISRO, the CE20 cryogenic engine indigenously developed for LVM3 has been subjected to successful hot test at an uprated thrust level of 21.8 tonne for the first time earlier in November.

Nov 09, 2022

India's First Private Rocket to be Launched between November 12-16

According to Hyderabad-based space star-tup Skyroot Aerospace, India's first privately developed rocket Vikram-S -- is set for a launch in a sub-orbital mission with three payloads between November 12 and 16.
The maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named 'Prarambh' (the beginning), will carry two Indian and one foreign customer payloads and is set for launch from Indian Space Research Organisation's launchpad at Sriharikota.
Spacekidz, a Chennai-based aerospace startup, will fly 'Fun-Sat', a 2.5 kg payload developed by students from India, the US, Singapore and Indonesia on the sub-orbital flight on board Vikram-S.

Google Launches 'FloodHub', a Platform to Forecast Flood

Google, an American technology giant, launched a platform that displays flood forecasts, namely 'FloodHub'. This platform shows the area and time where floods could occur, in order to inform people about the natural calamity and authorities can assist them with effectively.
The technology giant also expanded its AI flood forecasting services to 18 counties across Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. To recall, these flood forecasting services supported by AI were first introduced in India back in 2018.

Nov 08, 2022

ISRO Plans to Return to Mars and Work with Japan to Examine the Moon's Dark Side

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) turned its attention to Venus and is collaborating with Japan to examine the moon's dark side, following trips to the moon and Mars. ISRO's next mission at the Akash Tattva conference was that the space agency also intended to send a probe to Mars.
A Japanese rocket will launch an ISRO-built lunar lander and rover into orbit with a planned landing site close to the south pole of the moon.
The rover will then move to the area of the moon that is always in shadow and never receives sunlight.

Nov 03, 2022

SpaceX Launches World's most Powerful Rocket 'Falcon Heavy' on Space Force Mission

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most-powerful active rocket, lifted off for the first time in more than three years through dense fog at Florida's Cape Canaveral, with Elon Musk's company sending satellites into orbit for the U.S. Space Force.
The rocket system, consisting of three Falcon 9 boosters strapped side-by-side, took off from a SpaceX launch pad, with two satellites from the Space Force and a group of smaller satellites bound for orbit.
This mission marked the first use of the rocket by the Space Force, a U.S. military branch established under former President Donald Trump to oversee much of the Pentagon's defense activities in space.

Nov 02, 2022

Astronomers Discover Three Large Near-Earth Asteroids

Astronomers using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have discovered two rare Atira/Apohele asteroids, which have orbits completely interior to Earth's orbit, and one Apollo-type asteroid that crosses Earth's orbit. The latter is likely the largest Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) discovered in about eight years.

Yogi Adityanath Inaugurates North India's First Data Centre at Greater Noida

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated North India's first hyper-scale data centre Yotta Yotta D1 built at the cost of Rs. 5,000 crore and spread over an area of 3,00,000 square feet at the upcoming Data Centre Park in Greater Noida. Memorandums of Understanding worth Rs. 39,000 crore were also signed between the Yogi Government and Hiranandani Group to be spent on projects in the next five years on the occasion.
The data centre would increase the data storage capacity of the country, which until now stood at two per cent only despite the fact that 1.5 billion mobile phones and 650 million internet users in the world are from India using 20 per cent of data. Yet for storage of data, we had to look for centres abroad.
The Data Centre Policy was notified in 2021. Under the policy, the work of setting up of 04 Data Centre Parks by various investors is currently under process with an investment of more than Rs. 15,950 crore. These include M/s NIDP Developers Pvt Ltd of Hiranandani Group (Rs. 9134.90 crore), M/s NTT Global Centers and Cloud Infrastructure India Pvt Ltd of Japan (Rs. 1687 crore), and two projects of Adani Enterprises Ltd of Rs. 2414 crore and Rs. 2713 crore. With the start of these projects, thousands of people would also get employment.

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