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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - December 2018

Dec 2018

Mar 15, 2025

ISRO Successfully Conducts De-docking of SpaDeX Satellites

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed the successful undocking of their Space Docking Experiment - SpaDex, setting the stage for future missions such as Chandrayaan-4 and more.

Mar 14, 2025

ScienceDirect AI: Elsevier Launches Generative AI Tool for Researchers

Dutch publishing company, Elsevier, that specialises in medical and scientific content launched ScienceDirect AI, a generative AI tool for researchers, the company announced, adding that it will enable researchers to instantly extract, summarise, and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect.
ScienceDirect is world's largest platform for peer-reviewed research.

Mar 13, 2025

NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun

NASA launched four small satellites that make up the agency's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, to study how the Sun's outer atmosphere becomes the solar wind.
NASA's PUNCH will make global, 3D observations of the inner solar system and the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, to learn how its mass and energy become the solar wind, a stream of charged particles blowing outward from the Sun in all directions. The mission will explore the formation and evolution of space weather events such as coronal mass ejections, which can create storms of energetic particle radiation that can endanger spacecraft and astronauts.

Mar 12, 2025

NASA's SPHEREx Telescope

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way Galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ingredient for life.
The U.S. space agency's megaphone-shaped SPHEREx, short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionisation and Ices Explorer, was carried aloft by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
During its planned two-year mission, the observatory will collect data on more than 450 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way. It will create a three-dimensional map of the cosmos in 102 colours - individual wavelengths of light - and will study the history and evolution of galaxies.

Mar 11, 2025

Assam Government to Launch Its Own Satellite 'ASSAMSAT'

In a landmark move, the Assam state government has announced plans to launch its own satellite, ASSAMSAT, to bolster data access for crucial socio-economic initiatives and enhance border security. This announcement was made by Assam Finance Minister Ajanta Neog while presenting the state budget for the financial year 2025-26. The satellite is envisioned to provide dedicated services for agriculture, disaster management, infrastructure development, and security operations. This initiative marks a historic milestone, as Assam becomes the first Indian state to launch its own satellite.
The ASSAMSAT satellite will be developed in collaboration with IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Center) and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). The initiative is part of the BJP-led coalition government's vision to strengthen technological capabilities and enhance governance through satellite-based surveillance and monitoring systems.

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