Giant Alien Planet may be lurking inside, “A huge, complicated dust structure 150 billion miles across that surrounds the young star HR 4796A”, which has been discovered by the astronomers by using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. A bright, narrow, inner ring of dust is already known to encircle the star and may have been corralled by the gravitational pull of an unseen giant planet. NASA (Nationa...
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DefExpo 2018 to Boost Defence Manufacturing in India
DefExpo 2018 or Defence Expo 2018’ held in Chennai at Tiruvidanthal, in Kancheepuram district from 11 to 14 April 2018with its tag line “India: The Emerging Defence Manufacturing Hub”to showcase India’s capability in export of defence systems and components hada gathering of defence industry representatives from private and public sector representing some 500 Indian companies an...
CIMON with Brain-like Artificial Intelligence to Support Astronauts
Crew Interactive Mobile Companion (CIMON) or Flying Brain, A 3D-printed Artificial Intelligence system for assisting astronauts in the International Space Station (ISS) has been created by the Netherlands based aeronautics company Airbus for Germanys DLR Space Administration that will soon join the crew aboard ISS. CIMON with its face, voice and artificial intelligence has a bra...
GOES-S the Most Advanced Weather Satellites Launched
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V Rocket at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) i.e. 17:02 Eastern Time (22:02 UTC) on Thursday, March 1, 2018 and deployed an advanced weather satellite for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA).
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Stephen Hawking had a Razor-Sharp Mind Inside the Shell of his Increasingly Useless Body
Stephen Hawking, famed for his work on black holes and relativity, was Britain’s most famous modern day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe. Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, became disabled at 21 – in 1963 diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - an incurable motor neurone disease, and was given two years to live. He survived this t...
Successful Fifth Flight Test of Agni-5 Ballistic Missile Further Strengthens Our Credible Deterrence
Agni-5, Long Range Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile, has been successfully flight tested for its full range on 18 January, 2018 at 0953 hrs from Dr Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha, formerly known as Wheeler Island. This was the fifth successful test of the Missile and the third consecutive one from a canister on a road mobile launcher. This successful test of Agni-5 reaffirms the country’s indige...
SARAS PT1N Indigenous Civilian Aircraft Makes Successful Flight
SARAS PT1N, 14-seater aircraft, designed and developed by CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), a frontline aerospace research laboratory, successfully made its maiden flight on Wednesday 24 January, 2018 in Bengaluru. The aircraft took off at about 11 a.m. from HAL airport and flew for about 40 minutes at the maximum height of 8500 ft at the speed of 145 knots. The flight was command...
Electric Vehicle Nation by 2030
Yeah! You heard it right- India is planning to become an electric vehicle nation and that too within a decade. As per the latest speculations, the nation is aiming to achieve this feat by 2030.
Is it real or just a delusion? Well, that can be decided only when 2030 will arise when we can actually analyze the success rate of this project. However, as of now, we can simply look...
Pratyush India’s Fastest & First Multi-Petaflops Supercomputer to Improve Weather & Climate Forecasts
"Pratyush", meaning the sun, India's fastest and first "Multi-Petaflops" supercomputer, the High Performance Computing (HPC) facility established at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, which will be a national facility for improving weather and climate forecasts, was dedicated to the nation on Monday January 8, 2018 by Union Minister for Science and Techno...
World’s Largest Amphibious Aircraft – AG600 Takes Off in China
World's largest amphibious aircraft, codenamed Kunlong, China’s home-grown AG600, took off from southern city of Zhuhai and landed after hour-long flight on Sunday 24 December 2017; its successful maiden flight makes China among the world’s few countries capable of developing a large amphibious aircraft. AG600's chief designer is Huang Lingcai. China’s state media Xinhua describ...