It has been many years since human feet fell on the moon. The robotic vehicle is also moving on the chest of Mars. This time, scientists have started searching for ‘fossils’ in the solar system. As part of that, the US space agency NASA launched a spacecraft on Saturday. The expedition has been named ‘Lucy’….
A new group of astronauts will soon be journeying to the International Space Station (ISS) to join the crew there, and they’ll be traveling aboard a brand-new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The team, known as Crew-3, consists of NASA’s Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, plus European Space Agency’s Matthias Maurer. And in a news…
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SpaceX, the aerospace company headed by billionaire Elon Musk, struck a valuation of $100 billion following a secondary share sale announced earlier this week, CNBC reported on October 8. Sources told the news channel that SpaceX has an agreement with new and existing investors to sell stock valuing up to $755 million from insiders, at a price…
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Below is a summary of the latest scientific news. Japanese scientists whet the appetite for lab-bred Wagyu beef Japan’s famous Wagyu beef, a delicacy that can cost more than $ 200 a pound in some top restaurants, could become much more affordable in the form of a replica grown in the laboratory. According to Japanese…
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World Space Week is being celebrated at home and abroad. This year as in other years, the week is being celebrated in the country and abroad through various events. This year’s theme is ‘Women in Space’ or ‘Women in Space’. World Space Week is celebrated around the world from 4 to 10 October every year….
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will launch the eNaira, its digital currency, in a couple of days from now, Governor Godwin Emefiele told a conference on Thursday. He said this would make Nigeria “one of the first countries in Africa, and indeed the globe, to adopt the digitisation of its national currency”. The CBN…
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MOSCOW, October 4. /TASS/. Independent appraisers estimate the value of the International Space Station at $150 billion, the general designer of the space rocket corporation Energia, associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Solovyov told the conference entitled Scientific Space of the 21st Century: Challenges, Solutions, Breakthroughs at the RAS Space Research Institute…
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NASA has reassigned astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada to the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station as part of the Commercial Crew Program. Mann and Cassada will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for the Crew-5 mission. Additional crew members will be announced later. Crew-5 is expected to launch no earlier than fall…
Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) app and its photo-sharing platform Instagram were down for thousands of users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The portal showed there were more than 20,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram. Meanwhile, the social-media giant’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 14,000 users, while Messenger…
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TOKYO, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp’s (7203.T) Silicon Valley research arm on Thursday said it had acquired automotive operating system software company Renovo to help accelerate the development of fully-autonomous connected vehicles. “I am hoping to shave off years and months to our minimum viable product launches,” James Kuffner, the head of Toyota’s…
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