On Wednesday, ISRO said the 25hour countdown for the launch of communication satellite CMS01 on board launch vehicle PSLV-C50 began. The 52nd mission of the polar satellite launch vehicle is scheduled for lift-off at 15.41hours on Thursday from the second launch pad ‘Subject to weather conditions’ at the Sriharikota spaceport. “Mission of PSLV-CMS-01: Countdown for the launch of the mission of PSLV-C50/CMS01began today at 1441hrs from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR Sriharikota, ISRO said. CMS01 is the space agency’s 42nd communication satellite and is designed to provide frequency range ExtendedC Band services covering the islands of India, Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshadweep. The PSLVC50 is the 22nd PSLV flight in the ‘XL’ configuration (equipped with six strapon engines), and the 77th Sriharikota launch vehicle mission, about 120 km from here will be launched tomorrow. It follows the successful launch on November 7 of the earth observation satellite PSLVC49 (EOS01) and nine customer spacecraft, which was ISRO’s first mission of the year in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Each year on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO celebrates World Philosophy Day, underlining the enduring importance of philosophy for the growth of human thought, for each community and for each person. Philosophy is both an inspiring discipline and a daily activity that can alter cultures. By allowing the richness of the world’s intellectual currents to be uncovered, philosophy encourages intercultural discourse. Philosophy seeks to create a more inclusive, more respectful community by awakening minds to the exercise of thought and the rational confrontation of views. Thus by establishing the conceptual conditions for change, it helps to recogznise and respond to major contemporary challenges. UNESCO leads, but does not own, World Philosophy Day. All, wherever, who cares about philosophy belongs to it. All UNESCO partners are encouraged to coordinate various types of activities on this day of collective exercise in an open, reasoned and educated way of thinking about the major challenges of our time – intellectual dialogues, discussions, conferences, seminars, cultural events and presentations on the general theme of the day with the participation of philosophers and scientists from all branches of the day.
PARAM Siddhi is the second Indian supercomputer on the Top 500 list to be included in the top 100. Pratyush, a supercomputer used at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology for weather forecasting, was ranked 78th on the November list. In the June rankings announced by the project, it was ranked 66th. Mihir (146th onthelist), another Indian supercomputer, has clubs with Pratyush to generate enough computing power to equal PARAM-Siddhi. It is a supercomputer built under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) at C-DAC for high-performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI). It was previously commissioned by the CDAC and was developed in partnership with chipmaker Nvidia and Atos, a French IT consulting company. Deep learning, visual computing, augmented reality, accelerated computing, as well as virtualization of graphics can assist. As a forum for academia, scientific research, start-ups and more the machine is supposed to be used. The project Top500 monitors the world’s most powerful supercomputers and is published twice a year. According to the list, the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku (442 petaflops) and IBM’s Summit (148.8 petaflops) are the world’s two most powerful supercomputers. Chinese Sunway TaihuLight, created by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC) in China, is number four on the list (93 petaflops).
A major milestone was achieved by a direct hit on a Banshee Pilotless target aircraft at medium range and medium altitude by the Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) System. The missile launch took place from ITR Chandipur at 1550 hrs off the Odisha Coast on 13 Nov 2020.A […]
India is home to numerous museums, and now it seems that a sandalwood museum is on its way, too. First of all, this museum is likely to arrive later this month in Mysuru in Karnataka. Mysuru is already popular as a city for its sandalwood soaps, sandalwood oil, sticks of […]
Happiness is the debut book by Ms. Abhijita Gupta, the youngest poet. Her book is a collection of short story and poems, all written at only seven years of age by a young prodigy. Today, in the Asia and Foreign Book of Records, Abhijita is the youngest author to get her name. At the age of 5, Abhijita began writing and today she has her book published by Invincible Publishers. Abhijita stands out with her selfpenned poetry and storeys as an inspiration for the kids around them. Happiness all around gives readers an insight into the ability to comprehend and the things that interest a child. All the illustrations in the book are her ideas, adding creativity to strengthen the relationship with the readers. Rashtrakavi Shri Maithalisharan Gupt and Santkavi Shri Siyaramsharan Gupt are also the third generation poets of Abhijita. ‘Happiness all around’ makes Abhijita India’s youngest writer. The book is for kids who enjoy reading poetry and storeys, except that one of them writes it. Invincible Publishers has launched this book in ebook format on Amazon Kindle, one of India’s leading and largest publishing houses, and it is also available in print form.
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