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SpaceX ridesharing mission launches record 143 satellites
Called the Transporter-1 mission, the two-stage Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Sunday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. According to SpaceX, the rideshare programme offers cheap access to space for small satellite companies, starting at $1 million for a 200-kg satellite.
Scientists create improved eye tracking tech for Virtual Reality systems
The study, published in the SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, indicates that the model would make VR/AR systems more realistic and sensitive to user actions. Foveated rendering is a basic technology of VR systems. When a person looks at something, their gaze is focused on the so-called foveated region, and everything else is covered by peripheral vision.
7 planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 may be made of similar stuff
Located about 40 light-years away, TRAPPIST-1 is home to the largest group of roughly Earth-size planets ever found in a single stellar system. Previous calculations determined that the planets are roughly the size and mass of Earth and thus must also be rocky, or terrestrial -- as opposed to gas-dominated, like Jupiter and Saturn.
7 planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 may be made of similar stuff
Some of these seven planets have been known since 2016, when scientists announced that they had found three planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile.
Night sky tourism takes-off in Jaipur
State Minister of Arts and Culture, B.D. Kalla, in the presence of Chief Secretary Niranjan Arya, launched the project on Thursday aimed at garnering more tourists into the desert state. The Department of Science and Technology will focus on specific astronomical events that happen from time to time.
No benefit from arthritis drug for severe Covid-19 patients: Study
According to the researchers, including Regis G Rosa from Hospital Moinhos de Vento in Brazil, there was an increased number of deaths at 15 days in patients receiving an arthritis drug -- tocilizumab -- that resulted in the trial being stopped early.
Space startup Pixxel launches new facility in Bengaluru
The announcement comes ahead of the company's first satellite launch, scheduled for February 2021 on an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket. The space will be utilised to develop satellites as part of their plan to build a constellation of 30 satellites by 2023. The new facility was inaugurated by K Sivan, Chairman, ISRO.
Humans used chopping tools half million years ago: Study
In their study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from TAU and the University of Rome, in collaboration with the University of Tubingen, Germany, found that the tools were used to break open bones of cattle, fallow deer and gazelles, and extract the nutritious high-calorie bone marrow.
China launches new mobile telecommunication satellite
The Tiantong 1-03 satellite was launched at 00:25 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-3B carrier rocket and entered the planned orbit successfully, the Xinhua news agency reported. Tiantong-1 is a satellite mobile communication system independently developed and built by China. It consists of a space segment, ground segment, and user terminal.
2020 warmest year on record, hotter years to come: NASA
By most accounts, 2020 has been a rough year for the planet. Massive wildfires scorched Australia, Siberia, and the US west coast -- and many of the fires were still burning during the busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record.
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