The mission is being undertaken as part of the commercial agreement signed between NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL) and US-based AST SpaceMobile (AST and Science, LLC)
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Watson died on Thursday (US time) after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former employer
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ISRO Chairman V Narayanan said the launch vehicle successfully injected the communication satellite in the required orbit
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“Currently, each programme of the research and development work of putting a person on the moon is progressing smoothly,” said Zhang Jingbo
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Nobel announcements continue with the chemistry prize on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics on October 13
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The India-UK TSI, signed last year, is scheduled to be at the top of the agenda when Starmer joins Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2025, starting in Mumbai on Tuesday
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ISRO has also drawn up plans to upgrade its launch vehicles significantly that would aim to carry 150-tonne payloads to orbit in a single mission
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“This is the most life-like skin model that’s been developed anywhere in the world and will allow us to study diseases and test treatments more accurately,” said lead researcher Abbas Shafiee, a tissue engineering and regenerative medicine scientist from UQ’s Frazer Institute
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The diameter of the satellite is estimated to be only some 10 kilometres
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Corporations have also seized the opportunity to fund low-quality research and ghostwrite papers intended to distort the weight of evidence, influence public policy and alter public opinion in favour of their products
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