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NASA, Partners Launch Virtual Hackathon to Develop COVID-19 Solutions

April 30, 2020 Credits: NASA NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) are inviting coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists to participate in a virtual hackathon May 30-31 dedicated to putting open data to work in developing solutions to issues related to …

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NASA Names Companies to Develop Human Landers for Artemis Moon Missions

April 30, 2020 Illustration of Artemis astronauts on the Moon. Credits: NASA NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is on track for sustainable human exploration of the Moon …

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Microwave steriliser to disintegrate novel Coronavirus developed

By SK.Vyas : Delhi, April 30, 2020: Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, a deemed university supported by Defence Research and Development Organisation has developed a microwave steriliser named as ‘ATULYA’ to disintegrate (COVID-19). The virus gets disintegrated by differential heating in the range of 560 to 600 Celsius temperatures. The product is …

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Sorrowful departure of the legend in private

Anupreet Singh : Mumbai, April 30, 2020: Today morning at 8:54, the legendary actor breathed his last and left for his heavenly abode. His family was by his side when he passed away. Rishi Kapoor’s funeral was taken place today in the evening at Chandanwadi crematorium in Mumbai’s Marine Lines. …

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Alabama High School Student Names NASA’s Mars Helicopter

April 29, 2020 Vaneeza Rupani (inset), a junior at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama, came up with the name Ingenuity for NASA’s Mars Helicopter (an artist’s impression of which is seen here) and the motivation behind it during NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contest. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Destined to become the first …