Category: Science
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First commercial crew mission, Crew Dragon arrives space station
NASA and SpaceX made history on Saturday after launching and successfully docking the first commercially-built and operated crew spacecraft and rocket known as Crew Dragon to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. The first @Commercial_Crew mission arrived at the space station today when the @SpaceX #CrewDragon completed soft capture on the Harmony module at…
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Consortia complete design for world’s most powerful radio telescope in South Africa
The two engineering consortia tasked with designing the entire essential infrastructure for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) sites in Australia and South Africa have formally concluded their work, bringing to a close nearly five years of collaboration both within and between the consortia. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the SKA project is an international effort to build…
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Nigeria to experience total lunar eclipse on Monday – NASRDA
The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) on Friday said Nigeria will join other countries of the world to experience total lunar eclipse on Monday. The information was contained in a statement issued to NAN by Dr Felix Alle, the Head, Media and Public Communications of the agency in Abuja. According to Alle, lunar…
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Scientists invent new wirelessly controlled device to treat Parkinson’s disease
Scientists from University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on the western U.S. coast have invented a wirelessly controlled neuro-stimulator that could provide fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson. This is contained in a study that was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering in the U.S. UC Berkeley researchers worked out a wireless…
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Astronomer celebrated as Mother of Hubble dies at 93
Nancy Grace Roman, celebrated as a trailblazer for female scientists and a driving force behind advances including the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, is dead. TheNewsGuru (TNG) gathers Roman died on Christmas day at a hospital in Germantown, Maryland. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 16, 1925. Her father was a geophysicist…
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Finally, SpaceX launches long-awaited military GPS Satellite
After some major setbacks, SpaceX has finally launched into space a rocket carrying much-awaited GPS Satellite for US Military. The rocket blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Sunday, marking the space transportation company’s first national security space mission for the United States. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying a roughly $500 million GPS satellite built…
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FCC fines start-up of former Google, Apple engineers for unauthorized satellite launch
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Swarm Technologies, a California-based start-up founded by former Google and Apple engineers in 2016, for unauthorized satellite launch. Swarm will pay a $900,000 fine for launching and operating four small experimental communications satellites that risked “satellite collisions” and threatened “critical commercial and government satellite operations”. The former…
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SpaceX halts launch of $500 million GPS satellite
Elon Musk’s SpaceX halted Tuesday’s launch of a long-delayed navigation satellite for the U.S. military, postponing for at least a day the space transportation company’s first designated national security mission for the United States. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was due to take off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral shortly after 9:30 a.m. local time (1730 GMT)…
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Nigeria to acquire critical satellite based augmentation system equipment
Adamu Idris, Head of Public Affairs Department at Nigerian Communications Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) has said the country would acquire critical Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) equipment under an agreement with a French company, Thales Alenia Space. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the NIGCOMSAT Head of Public Affairs Department disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja, revealing…
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Onu presents 41 patent certificates to Nigerian investors, innovators
The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, on Monday, presented 41 patent certificates to Nigerian inventors and innovators. He made the presentation at an event in Abuja, saying that “such favourable legal framework is necessary for the management, protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.” According to him, the present administration has realised…