MIT World Peace University has established a state-of-the-art ground station as part of the institution’s nano-satellite initiative. A team of 35 MIT-WPU students is working on the project along with 4 faculty members including Dr Anup Kale, prof Anagha Karne, Dr Deobrat Singh and Dr Sachin Kulkarni. Prof Milind Pande, pro-vice-chancellor, MIT-WPU said, “This cutting-edge Ground Station embodies a new …
Today is the 89th birth anniversary of Udupi Ramachandra Rao, who is also known as ‘India’s Satellite Man’ or the ‘Father of Indian Satellite Program’. Positions held Domestic 1984 - 1994 Chairman, Space Commission/Secretary, Department of Space, Government of India & Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore 1981 - 2001 Member, Space Commission, Government of India 1997 - 2000 Chairman, …
Two high school students from the United States have become the youngest people to discover four new exoplanets situated 200-light-years away from Earth. Their peer-reviewed research paper on this spectacular discovery was published in The Astronomical Journal on January 25, 2021. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd73e According to The Harvard Gazette, 16-year-old junior Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old senior Jasmine Wright were part of the …
WhatsApp delivers about 100 bn messages every day WhatsApp users are now exchanging roughly 100 billion messages every day, as private messaging continues to be one of the fastest-growing forms of communication, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company’s third quarter earnings call. SpaceX expands Starlink beta testing SpaceX has started expanding beta testing of its satellite-based internet service Starlink …
Elon Musk's SpaceX has won a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the US Space Development Agency announced. Scroll down for video Elon Musk's SpaceX has won a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon with the U.S. Space Development Agency. The firm will build four satellites fitted with a wide-angle infrared missile-tracking …
NASA said its planet hunter satellite TESS had discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone of its star. Scientists confirmed the find, called TOI 700 d, using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and have modeled the planet’s potential environments to help inform future observations. NASA's planet hunter finds Earth-size world in 'Habitable Zone' TOI 700 d is one …