Author: Mahek Khan

The USSF-12 mission for the American Space Force was launched on July 1 by a United Launch Alliance Atlas (ULA) 5 rocket. At 7:15 p.m. Eastern, the rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida’s Space Launch Complex-41. Two satellites were launched on the USSF-12 mission, which cost $1.1 billion, into geosynchronous Earth orbit: the Wide Field of View (WFOV) missile-warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force and a ring-shaped payload adaptor containing six classified smallsat experiments for the DoD’s Space Test Program. This was the Atlas 5 rocket’s 94th mission Four solid rocket boosters and an…

The earthquake’s epicentre was located 5.2 kilometres northwest of M Chembu Village, Paraje Grama Panchayat, Madikeri Taluk, Kodagu District, which borders Dakshina Kannada District. At 7.45 in the morning, the earthquake was reported. 3.0-magnitude earthquake strikes Kodagu in Karnataka, the second in four days. Residents of Kodagu had felt tremors earlier on Saturday, June 25. These Western Ghats foothills communities, which border the Kodagu district, were shaken by a 2.7-magnitude tremor. The epicentre was located at 12.44 degrees north and 75.47 degrees east. In the Madikeri taluk of the Kodagu district, the epicentre was located 4.7 kilometres to the northwest of…

The ambassador of Columbia has expressed interest in winning India’s cooperation for using space technology for nation-building. On Tuesday, Mariana Pacheco, the ambassador of Columbia to India, met with Somanath S, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Which has its headquarters in Bengaluru and is the secretary of the department of space. The ambassador of Columbia has expressed interest in winning India’s cooperation for using space technology for nation-building According to a release from the ISRO, Pacheco expressed his happiness with the current space collaboration under the India-Colombia Memorandum of Understanding inked in September 2021. Columbia Asks India…

According to a police official, two juveniles and one man were both detained for the murder of a person on Monday in Vasai’s Kaman neighbourhood

On Monday, the Delhi police detained Mohammed Zubair, a fact-checker and co-founder of Alt-News, for allegedly injuring religious sensibilities through a tweet. After a Twitter user tagged Delhi police in one of Mohammed Zubair’s posts from 2018 about the Hindu god Hanuman, he was detained. Let’s examine the specifics. What was the tweet about? Zubair poked fun at a hotel that changed its name from “Honeymoon Hotel” to “Hanuman Hotel” in a tweet dated March 24, 2018. “Before 2014: Honeymoon Hotel, After 2014: Hanuman Hotel.” he captioned that picture. According to reports, this Tweet incited the public, which ultimately resulted…

Following Mukesh Ambani’s resignation as the company’s director on June 27, Reliance Jio declared on Tuesday that its board has accepted the nomination of Akash Ambani as chairman of the board. Akash Ambani has been chosen to serve as Reliance Jio’s non-executive director as well. Pankaj Mohan Pawar’s nomination as Reliance Jio’s managing director for a term of five years commencing on June 27, 2022, received board approval at today’s meeting as well. The board of Jio has accepted the appointment of Raminder Singh Gujral and K.V. Chowdary to the position of additional directors, the firm announced in a statement.…

After a shooting in Oslo, the capital of Norway, a 42-year-old man has been detained and accused of murder, attempted murder, and terrorist actions. On Saturday at around 1:00 a.m. local time (23:00 GMT), there was a shooting in three different places, including a homosexual pub. A popular LGBTQ+ establishment, the London Pub, as well as a jazz club and a pub close by were all the targets of gunfire. According to investigators, the suspect, a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen of Iranian ancestry, was apprehended after opening fire at three different sites in the heart of Oslo, thereby it can be…

Rather than having to wait two years for its launch, NASA has identified an alternative route for a modest lunar orbiter project. The NASA Science Mission Directorate undertook the initiative – SIMPLEx (Small, Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration) and selected Lunar Trailblazer in the year 2019. The Lunar Trailblazer mission, directed by Principal Investigator Bethany Ehlmann (Caltech), and supervised by JPL’s Calina Seybold and Andy Klesh, deploys sophisticated infrared sensors in orbit for the temporal and geographical characterisation of lunar water and cold traps. Lunar Trailblazer seeks to understand the kind, amount, and distribution of water on Mars as well as the…

According to a Taliban official who spoke to the BBC, a strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has left at least 1,000 people dead and 1,500 injured. After a magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook isolated areas of southeast Afghanistan, almost 1,000 people were killed and 600 were injured. According to the UN, about 130 injured persons have been taken to hospitals. Authorities claim that in underdeveloped areas, entire neighbourhoods have been damaged. Although there were no initial reports of injuries or damage in the neighbouring nations of Pakistan and Iran, shocks could be felt there. Pictures of landslides and destroyed mud-brick dwellings…

The Sample return mission of China seeks to gather samples from the red planet – Mars and transport them back to Earth in 2031, two years just before NASA-ESA’s collaborative mission. On June 20, Sun Zezhou, the lead designer of the Tianwen-1 and rover missions, revealed a new mission portfolio for the return of Mars samples to China. The Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter and rover will launch in late 2028 and will return samples to Earth in July 2031, according to Sun Zezhou’s plans for the 2 launch profile. With a solitary Mars takeoff and no rovers sampling separate sites, the…