Telecom operator Bharti Airtel and equipment maker Ericsson have conducted India's first 5G network trial in a rural location, demonstrating the potential that 5G can unleash in bridging the digital divide.
The demonstration took place in Bhaipur Bramanan village on the outskirts of Delhi-NCR using 5G trial spectrum allocated to Airtel by the Department of Telecom.
The trial showcases the massive potential offered by 5G towards bridging the digital divide by enabling access to high-speed broadband through solutions such as enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) services.
Oct 05, 2021
BepiColombo Makes its First Gravity Assist Flyby of Mercury
BepiColombo, a joint endeavor between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), flew past the planet Mercury for a gravity assist manoeuvre.
BepiColombo had blasted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in October 2018.
The mission is named after Professor Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo from the University of Padua, Italy, a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination.
It is the first European mission to Mercury and is the first to send two spacecraft to make complementary measurements of the planet and its dynamic environment at the same time.
BepiColombo consists of two individual orbiters: ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO, or 'Mio').
Oct 04, 2021
ISRO's Commercial Arm NSIL Announces First Demand Driven Satellite Mission
ISRO's commercial arm, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) announced its first "demand-driven" communication satellite mission as part of Space reforms announced by the Government in June last year.
NSIL, incorporated in March 2019, got mandated to undertake operational satellite missions on a demand driven model, wherein it has the responsibility to build, launch, own and operate the satellite and provide services to its committed customer.
As part of this initiative, NSIL, a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE), under the Department of Space (DOS), is now undertaking its "1st demand driven communication satellite mission named GSAT-24, a four-tonne class Ku- band satellite.
NSIL is getting this satellite built by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) and will be launching it using Ariane-5 launcher operated by Arianespace.
Oct 02, 2021
Facebook's 2Africa to Become World's Longest Subsea Cable
Facebook has announced a new segment of subsea cable called 2Africa Pearls, which connects three continents - Africa, Europe, and Asia. This extension will bring the total length of the 2Africa cable system to more than 45,000 km, making it the longest subsea cable system ever deployed.
The 2Africa initiative's goal, as its name suggests, is to provide internet connectivity to people in Africa, which is currently the world's least connected continent.
The 2Africa subsea cable system will provide nearly three times the total network capacity of all the subsea cables serving Africa today. With 2Africa, the social media giant had planned to increase connectivity to 1.2 billion people.
Oct 01, 2021
NASA's Lucy Mission
American Space Agency, NASA, is set to send its first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
Spacecraft will be launched from "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida" on October 16, 2021.
This spacecraft would obtain new insights into the formation of solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
The spacecraft has been named as Lucy. It was named after an ancient fossil which provided insights into the evolution of human species.
Mission Lucy will be launched with the objective of investigating the group of rocky bodies that are circling the sun in two swarms- one preceding Jupiter and the other trailing behind it.
Trojans are small celestial bodies or asteroids, sharing the orbit of larger one. They remain in a stable orbit, nearly 60° ahead or behind the main body. The Jupiter trojans, commonly called Trojan asteroids or simply Trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the sun.
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