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JULY 2018-SCIENCE AND TECH NEWS

NASA launches online toolkit

  • NASA has launched an online toolkit to make it easier for users to find, analyse and utilise the most relevant satellite data for their research, business projects or conservation efforts.

Facebook to launch Satellite ‘Athena’ in 2019

  • Facebook has confirmed it is working on a new satellite project, named Athena, that will provide broadband internet connections to rural and underserved areas.

  • The company aims to launch satellite in early 2019.

UK selects Sutherland for its first spaceport

  • United Kingdom chosen “Sutherland”, on the A’Mhoine peninsula on the north coast of Scotland to send satellites vertically into orbit by the early 2020s.

China to launch 300 low-orbit satellites

  • China plans to launch 300 low-orbit satellites to provide worldwide communication services with the first in the series to be launched later this year.

ISRO scientists test Vikas Engine

  • ISRO has successfully conducted ground test of its high thrust version of Vikas Engine at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) in Mahendragiri, Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu for duration of 195 seconds.

2 satellites were launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch center

  • Pakistan launched 2 indigenously built satellites named PRSS-1 and PAK-TES-1A into the orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China, through a Chinese-made launch vehicle.

NASA prepared to ‘touch the sun’

  • NASA is prepared for a launch on August to touch the sun, for the first time in human history.

  • NASA unveiled a cutting-edge heat shield that will protect the spacecraft from getting burnt.

  • It was installed on June 2018.

ISRO first PAT conducted successfully

  • The PAT (Pad Abort Test) was conducted at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

  • It marks the first step to qualify India’s indigenous Crew Escape System technology for launching astronauts into space.

NASA to launch world’s lightest Satellite

  • The four first-year engineering students from Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science near Chennai, Tamil Nadu have developed the world’s lightest satellite which will be launched from a NASA facility in the US by August 2018.

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