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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - January 2020

Jan 2020

Jun 10, 2020

Pratik Tirodkar Develops World's First 'Internet-controlled' Robot 'Coro-bot'

Thane engineer, Pratik Tirodkar, founder of a start-up PNT Solutions, Dombivali developed the world's 1st 'Internet-controlled' robot named 'Coro-bot' to address the needs of the hospitals treating COVID-19 patients. It is deployed for the 1st time in Holy Cross Hospital, Kalyan, Maharashtra.
The company has created a special application to operate Coro-bot from any location in the world using Internet of Things (IoT) technology, the 1st time in the world that this technique is being deployed in the medical field.
The robot delivers food, water and medicines to Corona patients in the hospitals without needing the physical presence of nurses and other care-givers.
By using a camera it can interact with patients and also can caution them by audio reminders to sanitise their hands before they pick up things from trays.

Jun 09, 2020

UAE Mars Mission

The first Arab space mission to Mars is preparing to lift off within weeks.
It will take seven months to travel the 493 million km (308 million miles) to reach Mars and begin its orbit, sending back ground-breaking new data about its climate and atmosphere.
The probe will remain orbiting Mars for an entire Martian year, 687 days, to gather sufficient data.
A single orbit around Mars will take the probe 55 hours.
According to programme director Sarah Al-Amiri, the project should be a major incentive for young Arab scientists to embark on a career in space engineering.
Named Amal, meaning Hope, the unmanned craft is due to lift off from a remote Japanese island, Tanegashima, during a narrow launch window on 14th July.

Scientist Discover Mirror Image of Earth and Sun

Scientists have discovered a new exoplanet-star pair which resembles our Earth-Sun system.
According to a team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen, Germany, the star Kepler-160 and the planet KOI-456, are quite similar to the Sun and the Earth, more than any other planets previously discovered which makes the planet more conducive to life.
The Kepler-160 has at least three planets in its orbit.
The planet is approximately 3,000 light-years away from Earth.
The new discovery is different from previously discovered exoplanets. One of the key reasons for the same is its Sun-like host star.

Jun 07, 2020

ISRO Signs MoU with ARIES

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has entered into an agreement with Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) for cooperation in the field of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Astrophysics.
Space objects orbital tracking, analysis and space weather studies are important aspects in Space Situational Awareness and Management to safeguard Indian space assets from critical conjunction threats from space debris.
This MoU will pave the way for future collaborations between ISRO and ARIES in establishing optical telescope observational facilities for space object tracking, R&D studies in space weather, astrophysics and Near Earth Object (NEO).

Jun 03, 2020

A 170-ft Wide Asteroid Among 5 Flying by Earth Today: NASA Tracker

The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) of NASA has revealed that five Asteroids are going to pass by the Earth on June 3, 2020 at different intervals.
Among these five asteroids, 2020 KE4 asteroid will pass by Earth today within a distance of 0.01966 astronomical units as per the NASA.
The scientists have revealed that this asteroid, otherwise could be a Potentially Hazardous Object, poses no threat to planet Earth. The Asteroid 2020 KE4 is expected to burn out in the atmosphere.
The asteroids, also known as space rocks, that will pass by Earth are 2020 KF, 2020 KE4, 2020 KK7, 2020 KD4, and 2020 KJ1.

Jun 02, 2020

PM Modi launches CHAMPIONS Portal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the technology platform CHAMPIONS which stands for Creation and Harmonious Application of recent Processes for Increasing the Output and National Strength.
The portal is essential for creating the smaller units big by solving their grievances, encouraging, supporting, helping and handholding.
It is a real one-stop-shop solution of MSME Ministry.

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