Indian space agency, ISRO’s commercial arm NewSpace India will install mobile satellite service (MSS) terminals on at least 1 lakh fishing boats across nine states and four union territories, to help authorities send emergency weather alerts and alert fishermen about international water border violations. India’s indigenous navigation satellite system, Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) will run the network. NewSpace India Ltd has started selecting private vendors to supply, install and commission MSS terminals for establishing vessel communication and support system in marin
Japanese automaker Suzuki has agreed to jointly start producing flying cars with SkyDrive, a leading flying car start-up in Japan, around the spring of 2024. Flying cars are aircraft that can take off vertically and land using multiple rotors. The vehicles are typically meant for carrying a small number of people. Some of its models are also equipped for use on land. SkyDrive will set up a fully-owned production subsidiary that will assemble vehicles utilising the Suzuki group’s plant in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. The announcement comes a day after SkyDrive unveiled at the Paris
Kerala has become the first state in the country to have its own internet service provider, Kerala Fibre Optic Network (KFON). Speaking at the inauguration of the KFON project on June 5, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the state is the first in India to declare the internet as a right of the citizens. A public sector initiative, KFON will initially provide internet access to 100 houses in each assembly constituency of Kerala. It aims to end the digital divide by ensuring internet access for all. It has installed IT infrastructure to set up 40 lakh internet connections across t
Scientists at Nasa are testing a new technology that can predict a tsunami with the help of disturbances they create in the Earth’s atmosphere. According to Nasa, the new technology called Guardian (GNSS Upper Atmospheric Real-time Disaster Information and Alert Network) is a hazard-monitoring technology. It uses data from GPS and other satellites to detect real-time positional accuracy down to a few inches, said the scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of Nasa. The technology is also being tested by Nasa’s team of researchers in the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Oc
The James Webb Space Telescope of NASA has captured a picture showing over 45,000 galaxies in a single frame. The image was captured as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program. The world’s most powerful observatory scanned a patch of sky and came across a star factory packed with galaxies. The image shows a portion of an area of the sky known as GOODS-South, previously observed by the Hubble telescope as well. The JADES program will devote about 32 days of telescope time to uncover and characterise faint, far-off galaxies as astronomers try to understand th
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have identified factors influencing the probability of extreme rain events and developed a tool that can improve the forecasting of such events. Extreme rain events, principally those that lead to flash floods in the south and east of Israel in spring and fall are specifically difficult to forecast even a short while in advance. In April 2018, a flash flood had killed 10 students from an army preparatory program while they hiked in Nahal Tzafit, a riverbed in the Judean Desert close to the Dead Sea. The new research – led by Dr Assaf H
Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) have learned to fry food in space. In a new study, they have found that frying works even in the microgravity experienced in space. Experimenting with frying food in space for a while, the ESA scientists recently conducted a study in microgravity conditions at a height of 2,000 feet to test if potatoes can be fried in space where there is no gravity to create buoyancy. During the experiment, they found that vapour bubbles still formed on the potatoes’ surface, allowing the hot oil to fry them. The scientists have clarified that without b
Oncologists from the University of Oxford tested the Galleri blood test, which can detect 50 types of cancer. A product of US firm Grail, the test was tested in an NHS trial on more than 5,000 people. The experimental blood test will now be introduced to more people next year, said the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). In the NHS trial, the test could correctly reveal two out of every three cancers among 5,000 people who had visited their doctors with suspected symptoms in England or Wales. It could also identify the original site of cancer in 85 percent of the positive cases. The test
Transmission tower manufacturer KEC International has got two orders for Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), also known as the Kavach System, worth Rs 600 crore, said MD and CEO Vimal Kejriwal in an interview on June 6. The KEC orders come after the recent tragic three-train collision in Balasore, Odisha, which has brought attention to the implementation of TCAS systems. The accident claimed 288 lives and injured around 1,000. It was reported that the route did not have Kavach. Kavach is currently installed on a limited percentage of trains, estimated to be around 5-7 percent of th
Under a new partnership with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), telcos in Singapore will soon revamp existing fibre networks to fend off attacks by quantum computers in the future. Quantum computers, or the next generation of computers, use the properties of light to solve problems too complex for traditional computers. Observers believe this will lead to new breakthroughs in medicine, materials and better artificial intelligence. However, the systems can also be used to crack passwords and encryption technology in seconds, creating risks for hospitals, banks and organisation