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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - December 2018

Dec 2018

Dec 02, 2021

LinkedIn Now Available in Hindi

LinkedIn marked a new milestone with the launch of Hindi, the first Indian regional language on the professional network.
This would provide greater access to professional and networking opportunities to Hindi speakers in India and around the world.
LinkedIn now supports 25 languages globally.
A part of the Phase 1 roll-out of LinkedIn in Hindi, members would be able to access their feed, profile, jobs, messaging, and create content in Hindi on desktop, and on their Android and iOS phones.

NASA Aims to Replace ISS with One or more Commercial Space Station by 2030

The US space agency is planning to replace the International Space Station (ISS) with one or more commercial space stations by 2030.
NASA's auditing body, the Office of Audits, produced a report detailing the agency's commitment to replace the orbiting lab with commercial space stations.
Astronauts have lived and worked onboard the ISS orbiting roughly 250 miles above the Earth's surface for more than 20 years.

Dec 01, 2021

Researchers Create Self-Replicating Living Robots

Professor Joshua Bongard, a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont, and his colleagues from Tufts University and Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, built the first living robots (Xenobots, assembled from cells of a frog species called Xenopus laevis) in 2020, discovered that these computer-designed and hand-assembled organisms can swim out into their tiny dish, find single cells, gather hundreds of them together, and assemble 'baby' Xenobots inside their Pac-Man-shaped 'mouth' — that, a few days later, become new Xenobots that look and move just like themselves; and then these new Xenobots can go out, find cells, and build copies of themselves.

Nov 30, 2021

Skyroot Test-fires India's 1st Privately Built Cryogenic Rocket Engine "Dhawan-1"

Skyroot Aerospace, a space technology start-up based in Hyderabad, successfully test-fired Dhawan-1, India's first privately developed fully cryogenic rocket engine. This will power the upper stages of its upcoming Vikram-2 orbital launch vehicle. The rocket engine Dhawan-1 is named after Satish Dhawan, an Indian rocket scientist.
Dhawan-1 is a completely 'Made-in-India' cryogenic engine, developed using 3D printing with a superalloy. The engine is fuelled by liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen—a high-performance, low-cost, and clean rocket fuel.

Nov 29, 2021

Russian Docking Module Arrives at ISS

A Russian cargo craft carrying a new docking module was successfully connected with the International Space Station (ISS), following a two-day space journey.
The new spherical module is named Prichal (Pier) was docked with the orbiting outpost.
It comprises of six docking ports.
The module would allow potential future expansion of Russian segment of the space station.
It has secured to the docking port of new Russian Nauka (Science) laboratory module.
Prichal nodal module is a Russian spacecraft and a part of International Space Station. The module was approved in 2011 and was finally launched in November 2021.

Nov 27, 2021

K2 Mission Discovers 366 New Exoplanet Candidates

Using photometric data from NASA's Kepler/K2 mission, astronomers have identified 747 unique planet candidates and 57 multiplanet systems; of these candidates, 366 have not been previously identified, including one multiplanet system and one system with two short-period gas giants.

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