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NASA Picks Three Companies To Build Private Moon Landers



NASA is providing $79.5m to Astrobotic, $77m to Intuitive Machines and $97m to Orbit Beyond for the project.


NASA has chosen the first commercial companies that will carry the agency's equipment to the moon during its lead-up to a human landing in 2024: Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Orbit Beyond.
The companies will build moon landers to ferry NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations to the lunar surface. Those flights will be the first step of the agency's ambitious Artemis program to land humans on the moon in 2024. The first mission, by Orbit Beyond, will launch in September 2020. The other two will launch in the summer of 2021.
“This is truly exciting, a new way for us at NASA to do business,” Thomas Zurbuchen, the head of NASA's science mission directorate, said on Friday, May 31, during the announcement at agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. 
“We cannot wait to do the science that we want to do with instruments that we're developing right now — science that in many cases even five years ago we didn't know how to ask questions about. This is how urgent this is,” he said. 
Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Orbit Beyond will each carry a selection of NASA payloads that are intended either to address scientific questions about the moon or to test new technology that engineers are developing to advance space exploration.
NASA is providing $79.5 million to Astrobotic, $77 million to Intuitive Machines and $97 million to Orbit Beyond to work on their landers.  
NASA has not yet decided precisely which payloads will fly on which lander; the agency intends to do so later this year. Astrobotic has said its Peregrine lander will carry up to 14 payloads for NASA as well as 14 experiments for other customers (for a total of 28 payloads in all. Intuitive Machines will fly five payloads on its Nova-C lander, with Orbit Beyond carrying four payloads on its own Z-01 lander.
But each company's lander will be carrying more than just NASA's payloads. Orbit Beyond showed off a small demo rover as well as its lander model during the event NASA held to announce its commercial partners. Astrobotic also said it plans to carry rovers on its lunar lander.
Two of the selected companies are planning to launch their missions two years from now. 
Astrobotic plans to launch its lander in June 2021 and touch down in July 2021; Intuitive Machines to both launch and land in July 2021. Orbit Beyond is pushing the timeline significantly more: the company has told NASA it can land on the moon on Sept. 27, 2020.
The announcement follows the selection of nine finalist companies, which were announced in November. At the time, NASA did not offer any details about specific criteria that guided their choices
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Saturn is Losing its Rings: NASA

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A view of Saturn's northern hemisphere.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 and 2 observations made decades ago, confirms new NASA research that estimates that the rings have less than 100 million years to live.
Saturn's rings are mostly chunks of water ice ranging in size from microscopic dust grains to boulders several yards (metres) across. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn's magnetic field.
"We estimate that this 'ring rain' drains an amount of water products that could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn's rings in half an hour," said lead author of the study James O'Donoghue of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
"From this alone, the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years, but add to this the Cassini-spacecraft measured ring-material detected falling into Saturn's equator, and the rings have less than 100 million years to live. This is relatively short, compared to Saturn's age of over four billion years," O'Donoghue said.
Scientists have long wondered if Saturn was formed with the rings or if the planet acquired them later in life. The new research favours the latter scenario, indicating that they are unlikely to be older than 100 million years.
"We are lucky to be around to see Saturn's ring system, which appears to be in the middle of its lifetime. However, if rings are temporary, perhaps we just missed out on seeing giant ring systems of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, which have only thin ringlets today," O'Donoghue added.
Various theories have been proposed for the rings' origin. If the planet got them later in life, the rings could have formed when small, icy moons in orbit around Saturn collided, perhaps because their orbits were perturbed by a gravitational tug from a passing asteroid or comet.
The first hints that ring rain existed came from Voyager observations of seemingly unrelated phenomena: peculiar variations in Saturn's electrically charged upper atmosphere (ionosphere), density variations in Saturn's rings, and a trio of narrow dark bands encircling the planet at northern mid-latitudes.
These dark bands appeared in images of Saturn's hazy upper atmosphere (stratosphere) made by NASA's Voyager 2 mission in 1981.
The new study revealed glowing bands in Saturn's northern and southern hemispheres where the magnetic field lines that intersect the ring plane enter the planet.
Scientists analysed the light to determine the amount of rain from the ring and its effects on Saturn's ionosphere. They found that the amount of rain matches remarkably well with the astonishingly high values derived more than three decades earlier.

Why Isro's Gsat-7A launch is important for the Indian Air Force

HIGHLIGHTS



  • The communication satellite will enable the Indian Air Force (IAF) to interlink different ground radar stations, airbases and AWACS aircraft
  • Gsat-7A will not only interlink all airbases, but it will also boost drone operations
  • It will boost the air force’s network-centric warfare capabilities and enhance its global operations


What is the need to launch a dedicated satellite for IAF?



Once GSLV-F11 (GSLV Mk II) rocket launches Gsat-7A satellite from the second launchpad at Sriharikota at 4.10 pm on Wednesday in the geo orbit, the communication satellite will enable the Indian Air Force (IAF) to interlink different ground radar stations, airbases and AWACS aircraft. It will boost the air force’s network-centric warfare capabilities and enhance its global operations.


Why is Gsat-7A important for IAF?



Gsat-7A will not only interlink all airbases, but it will also boost drone operations as it will help the force upgrade from existing ground control stations to satellite-control of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The transition will boost the range, endurance and flexibility of UAVs. This comes at a time when India is in the process of acquiring American armed Predator-B or Sea Guardian drones, which are high-altitude and long endurance satellite-controlled UAVs that can fire at enemy targets from long distances.


What are the features of Gsat-7A?



Costing around Rs 500-800 crore, the communication satellite is configured on the standard 1-2K Bus with bi-propellant chemical propulsion system for orbit rasing and in-orbit maintenance. Its four solar panels are capable of generating around 3.3 kilowatts of electrical power.




How many dedicated communication satellites Isro has launched for the military?



Before the scheduled launch of Gsat-7A, Isro had launched Gsat-7, also called ‘Rukmini’, on September 29, 2013 exclusively for the Navy. ‘Rukmini’ has helped the Navy monitor the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) as the satellite has a nearly 2,000 nautical mile ‘footprint’ and provides real-time inputs to Indian warships, submarines and maritime aircraft. The IAF is also likely to get another satellite Gsat-7C, within a few years that will boost its network-centric operations.




What are the space assets of our Indian military?

India currently possesses around 13 military satellites. Most of these remote-sensing satellites like Cartosat-series and Risat satellites are placed in the near-earth orbit which help in better scanning of the earth. However, some of these military satellites have also been put in the geo orbit. The forces use these satellites for surveillance, navigation and communication purpose. The remote sensing satellites had also helped the military in the surgical strike against Pakistan to destroy terror launchpads.




How many military satellites are there in the world?



Currently, there are 320 military satellites orbiting the earth, with the US owning half of them, followed by Russia and China. Of late, China, considered to be India’s biggest rival, has taken huge strides in developing military assets in space, testing even ASAT (anti-satellite) weapons against “low-earth satellites” in January 2017.

Meet Farout, the Solar System’s Most Distant Minor Planet

Observations suggest the object is 300 miles in diameter, pinkish-red and 3.5 times as far away from the sun as Pluto


Farout
According to Sarah Lewin at Space.com, Farout—whose official name is 2018 VG18—was first spotted in November by researchers using the Subaru 8-meter telescope in Hawaii. Its existence was then confirmed using the Magellan telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Those observations show that the object is about 300 miles across and spherical, making it a dwarf planet. Its pinkish color also suggests that it is covered in ice. The celestial body was found about 120 astronomical units (AU) away, or 120 times the distance of the Earth to the sun. For comparison, Pluto orbits at 34 AUs and Eris, the former farthest observed object in the solar system, is 96 AUs away.

சாராஹாவின் விளைவுகள் பற்றி தெரியாமல் பயன்படுத்தி வரும் இளசுகள்! Girls Must read

சாராஹா (#Sarahah)! இல்லாத ஒரு ஃபேஸ்புக் டைம்லைன் ஃபீட் காண்பித்துவிட முடியுமா? என்றால், அது அந்த ஆண்டவனாலும் முடியாது என்று கூறும் அளவிற்கு டாப் டிரென்ட்டிங்கில் சென்றுக் கொன்டிருக்கிறது சாராஹா.
சாராஹா என்றால் ஹானஸ்ட், அதாவது நேர்மை என்று பொருள். இதை முதன் முதலில் அலுவலகத்தில் நேரடியாக கருத்து கூற முடியாதவர்கள், அலுவலக பிரச்சனைகள் அல்லது அலுவல் ரீதியான பிரச்சனைகளை தங்கள் பாஸிடம் மறைமுகமாக கூற உருவாக்கப்பட்ட செயலி..
காலப்போக்கில் இது ஒருவரின் பர்சனல் டெவலப்மெண்ட் செயலியாக மாறியது. ஒருவரது  நிறை, குறைகளை நேரடியாக கூற முடியவில்லை என்றால், இந்த சாராஹா மூலமாக கூறலாம்.
இதன் மூலம் ஒருவர் தன்னை மேம்படுத்திக் கொள்ள முடியும் என்ற கருவில் உருவான இந்த சாராஹா, இப்போது இந்தியாவில் அதிலும் முக்கியமாக பெண்களின் முகவரிகளில் வேறுவிதமாக செயற்பட்டு வருகிறது



சைஸ் என்ன? ஒரு சென்னை பெண்ணின் சாராஹா கணக்கில் ஒரு நபர், “நான் எப்போதுமே உனது அளவுகள் பற்றி அறிய மிகவும் ஆர்வமாக இருக்கிறேன். இதை சற்று தீர்த்து வைக்க முடியுமா? (பொது அறிவுக்காக தான் கேட்கிறேன் :P) என நக்கலாக கேள்வி எழுப்பியுள்ளார்.



தகுந்த பதிலடி! அதற்கு அந்த சென்னை பெண், “பாட்டா என்றால் 38, மெட்ரோ என்றால் 39, கேட்வாக் என்றால் 40, ஷூ அளவு 7” என, நிஜமாகவே “செருப்படி பதிவு தோழி” என்பது போல் தகுந்த பதில் அளித்துள்ளார் அவர். ஆனால், எல்லா பெண்களும் இப்படி நடந்துக் கொள்கிறார்களா? என்றால் இல்லை. சிலர் அதை ஒதுக்கி சென்று விடுகிறார்கள். சிலர் சாராஹாவையே டெலீட் செய்து விடுகிறார்கள். ஆனால், பலர் இது போன்ற பதிவுகளை பெருமையாக பகிர்ந்து வருகிறார்கள் என்பது தான் அதிர்ச்சியாக இருக்கிறது.



பெண்கள் கவனதிற்கு!
நமது சமூகத்தில் சில நாய்கள் கூட்டம் எப்போதுமே, “எப்பாடா காரணம் கிடைக்கும், இவங்கள மட்டம் தட்டலாம்” என காத்திருக்கிறது. அந்த நாய்களுக்கு நீங்களே பிஸ்கட் போட்டு வரவழைத்துவிட வேண்டாம். “என்னுடன் எப்போது டேட்டிங் வருவாய்”, “நான் உன்னை காதலிக்கிறேன்…”,” உன்னை ஒருமுறை கிஸ் செய்ய வேண்டும்… ” என்பது போன்ற பல பதிவுகளை லவ் ஸ்மைலி, வெட்கப்படும் ஸ்மைலி போட்டு பெண்கள் பகிர்கிறார்கள். இது உங்கள் பாத்திரத்தை கெடுக்கும் என்பதை நீங்கள் மறந்துவிட்டது ஏன்?

உதாரணம்! மேலும், மேலும் தொடர்ந்து எனக்கு உங்களை பிடிக்கும், நான் ஒரு நாள் மட்டும் உங்களுடன் டேட் செய்ய வேண்டும் என ஒரு சாராஹா செய்தி வந்தால், அதை தவிர்த்து விடுங்கள். அல்லது உங்களுக்கான அவர் மீதான கோபத்தை கொட்டிவிடுங்கள். அதை விடுத்து அதை ஆமோதிப்பது போல அந்த பதிவுகளை நீங்களே ஷேர் செய்வது, “இந்த பொண்ணு இப்படி தான் போல…” என்ற பிம்பத்தை ஏற்படுத்திவிட கூடும்.

ஆண்கள் மட்டும் செய்யலாமா? உடனே! சிலர் “அப்போது ஆண்கள் மட்டும் இப்படிப்பட்ட சாராஹா செய்திகளை பகிரலாமா? என கேள்வி எழுப்பலாம். இங்கே ஆண்களும், பெண்களும் ஒரே மாதிரியான கண்ணோட்டத்தில் காணப்படுவதில்லை. ஏனெனில், ஒரு குடும்பத்தில், சமூகத்தில் ஆண்களை காட்டிலும் பெண்களுக்கான மதிப்பு அதிகம். ஒரே தவறை ஆண், பெண் செய்தால், பெண்கள் அதிக தாக்கத்தை அடைவதன் காரணமும் அதுதான். ஒரு வெள்ளி மோதிரம் சாக்கடையில் விழுவதற்கும், வைர மோதிரம் சாக்கடையில் விழுவதற்கும் நம்மிடம் வெளிப்படும் உணர்வுகளில் வித்தியாசம் இருப்பது எப்படியோ, அப்படி தான் இதுவும். பெண்கள் மேன்மையானவர்கள் என்பதை பெண்களே அறியாதிருப்பது தான் சோகத்தின் உச்சம்.
ஆண்களின் கவனத்திற்கு! அப்பாடா சான்ஸ் கிடைத்தது என பெண்களுக்கு ஆபாச செய்திகள் அனுப்புவது, சைஸ் கேட்பது, டேட்டிங் கேட்பது எல்லாம் அவசியமா? உங்கள் வீட்டிலும், உறவிலும் ஒரு பெண் இதே சாராஹாவை பயன்படுத்தி வரலாம், அவரது சாராஹா இன்பாக்ஸ்-லும் இதே போன்ற செய்திகள் வரும் என்பதை மறந்துவிட வேண்டாம். சாராஹாவில் வருவதில் பெரும்பாலானை போலி தான். அதுக்கு ஏன் இவ்வளோ ஃபீலிங்….? என்றும் சிலர் கேட்கலாம். இது சாதாரண விஷயம் அல்ல. இது போன்ற சின்ன, சின்ன விஷயங்கள் தான் நமது பாத்திரம், குணாதிசயங்களில் வரும் நாட்களில் பெரிய தாக்கத்தை உண்டாக்கும்


ஒருவேளை… ஒருவேளை விளையாட்டாக நீங்கள் உங்களுக்கு தெரிந்த பெண்ணுக்கு ஆசை வார்த்தை அல்லது கேலியாகவோ, ஆபாசமாகவோ கருத்தை சாராஹாவின் மூலம் அனுப்புகிறீர்கள். அதை உங்கள் நண்பனிடம் காண்பித்து மகிழ்கிறீர்கள் என வைத்துக் கொள்வோம். அந்த நண்பர் மூலமாகவோ, அல்லது அவர் வேறு நண்பனிடம் அதை பகிர்ந்து அவர் மூலமாகவோ அந்த பெண்ணை சென்றடைந்துவிட்டால் என்ன செய்வீர்கள்? அந்த பெண் உங்கள் மீது வைத்திருக்கும் மதிப்பு என்ன ஆகும்? அவர் மூலமாக மற்றவர் அறியவந்தால் உங்கள் வட்டத்தில் உங்கள் பெயர் சிறிதளவாவது கெட வாய்ப்புகள் உண்டு

இதே வேலையா போச்சு! நாம் எந்த ஒரு கண்டுப்பிடிப்பையும் அதன் கருவை சார்ந்து பயன்படுத்துவது இல்லை. அதற்கான சமீபத்திய உதாரணம் சாராஹா. அந்த செயலியில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது போல கன்ஸ்ட்ரக்டிவ் கேள்விகள் நூற்றில் பத்து பேர் கூட கேட்பதில்லை. இதை தான் கடந்த ஒரு வாரமாக நாம் நமது ஃபேஸ்புக் வாலில் கண்டு வருகிறோம்.

Mystery planet Nibiru might collide with Earth: Theory claims solar eclipse will mark the end of our world

Aliens of mystery planet Nibiru created human race, and now, the planet is about to collide with Earth in September, say conspiracy theorists. We might die in 45 days, if the theory comes true.


If conspiracy theorists are to be believed, a planet will clash with Earth in September. To further reaffirm this, they believe that the coming solar eclipse will call for the apocalypse.

How to be a Good Girlfriend in Ten Steps

 Being a good girlfriend often involves some easy steps. You should know the art of loving your boyfriend and making him feel special. You may know the steps to be a good girlfriend in your mind, but brushing up those traits won’t go to waste. You may be indulging in those steps before even realising it, but if you are not practicing any of these traits, then you probably should be doing it to make your guy stay longer with you. He will love you more each passing day.

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Making others happy

 When you have to share something when you what to celebrate something good and when you have to cry and need the shoulder and when you have something to talk ... 

These all things are incomplete .. when you have no one to hear, no one to go and celebrate, no one to give a shoulder to cry .. 

9 Kinds Of Negative People You Just Don't Need In Your Life

Imagine not having someone to share nachos with because they don't like cheese. Or having to dance to EDM, when your heart truly belongs to Bollywood. Or not having someone to discuss the "They Were On A Break" theory. Sucks, doesn't it? You just don't need that kind of negativity in your life.


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People who DON'T have a secret arsenal of every possible Govinda song.

Seriously, what is their idea of partying if not dancing to "Main Toh Raste Se Ja Raha Tha" post 2 AM?

11 Things Only Sisters Can Relate To

So, how often have you wanted to get rid of your sister? Or thanked God that you have her? Well, having a sister in life is an ‘adventure’ that goes with the punch line: Can’t live with ‘em and can’t live without ‘em!
And that’s what makes your relationship with her so beautiful. From being the perfect partners-in-crime to forever friends, from sharing childhood memories to grown up dreams, you both have done it all together.
There are uncountable tiny moments which are so unique that only sisters can relate to them. Let’s have a look!
1 ​You Are Not Alone To Be Dragged To Boring Family Events

Is Social Media Making Us Superficial?

Imagine life without social media? I guess we wouldn’t survive. It’s become a part and parcel of life. Oh wait! It has become an essential part of our lives.
Social media, they say, have brought people closer but the question is, has it really? The motive behind social networking sites is to bridge the gap between people living apart but unfortunately, social media is creating a gap between people. 
We're so hooked on social media that we can't imagine a day without scrolling through our Facebook feed or our Instagram or Twitter page. Oh! Almost forgot about Snapchat.

Coming Soon – World’s Most Powerful Phone With 1.2 TB Storage, 18 GB RAM And 3 CPUs!


Apple had just launched what looks like tampons for your ears, and an iPhone that looks exactly the same as every single year.

Whatsapp adds Snapchat-like camera features

In a bid to take on Snapchat, Facebook is leaving no stone unturned. In a latest, WhatsApp has introduced new stickers in its camera features that have originally been used by Snapchat.
With the new camera features, users write or draw on photos and videos, as well as add emoji to express themselves. When a new photo or video is captured or shared like ones that are already on a user’s phone, they will automatically see the new editing tools. The WhatsApp camera feature further supports the front-facing flash and added a zooming feature for recording videos.
These new camera features were rolled out on Android phones yesterday and are expected on iPhone soon.




15 Of The Most Beautifully Bizarre Concept Cars Released In 2016

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It's easy to get kinda bored with all the cars you see around you on a daily basis. The same designs, the same sounds, the same everything. Concept cars provide a very useful, fun and exciting distraction from that. They're like a little glimpse into the future, a future where Star Wars and Tron and Total Recall have all merged into one sweet orgy of automobile euphoria. To that end, here are some of the craziest concept cars of 2016. Check it out!

1. The Faraday Future FFZERO1
A Batmobile-like vehicle with seats at a 45-degree angle and a steering wheel straight out of a race car. Pretty whack!





Source: Jalopnik  

15 Harsh Life Lessons You Learn On Your Own Once You Grow Up

Going through life as a journey, we experience things which help us constantly evolve as people. Sometimes, the going gets tough, we stumble and fall, and then pick ourselves up again. It's hard to understand life as it is, but each experience helps give us an epiphany and that is how life teaches us how to deal with it. 

Here are some lessons Redditors claim they learnt from their lives, people like you and me, facing their own challenges and learning things which will ring true with some of what you yourself have learnt along the beautiful journey. 

Pixel May Not Be An iPhone Killer, But Here’s Why Google’s New Smartphone Matters

Google first introduced smartphones of its own design nearly seven years ago, and hardly anyone has bought one. On Tuesday, it unveiled a revamped lineup, branded with Google's Pixel name.
The company's Android software already runs the vast majority of smartphones sold in the world, but Google wants to hedge its bets by having control over every feature and function in a selection of Android phones.
Google's aims only can pan out if it sells a large number of Pixel phones -- which it won't. And its strategic goal isn't a good enough reason for Google-branded smartphones to exist at all.
So why do it?



Google launched the pixel on Tuesday | Source: Google

15 WiFi Names That Are So Funny, They’ll Immediately Connect You To Laughter

In today's age, WiFi is a necessity. Who doesn't like fast internet? And it's all the more awesome if it's free. With the advent of WiFi, connecting to the web has become so convenient - all you need to do is search for an available WiFi name and you have the world at your fingertips.
Now it so happens, that some people's creativity knows no bounds. And that holds true when it comes to naming their WiFi devices as well. Just like these geniuses right here. Check 'em out.

1. Make sure you put a condom on your phone before you connect to this.



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Interesting Facts About Human Voice

Human voice is something magical. Expressing out our thoughts through words makes life truly beautiful. But, have we ever given a serious thought on the unknown facts about human voice or the vocal cords, unless there is any medical need for it?
Well, we are here to share some of the unknown and interesting facts about voice that you should know. These are some of the unexplained facts about voice that we, as humans, need to know.
From the pressure on nerves taken while whispering, to shouting, you have got to know al about these human voice facts.
We are here to debunk the fact that drinking milk is bad for the voice! Really? Yes, it is.
So, find out about some of these interesting facts on human voice, as they are something that we do not learn about in our everyday life.
Check them out...

VIN DIESEL SHOWS OFF TATTOO COMMEMORATING BEST FRIEND PAUL WALKER

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Paul Walker's eyes are extremely recognizable


When Paul Walker passed away, his fans and friends were completely devastated. He was only 40 years old and at the pinnacle of his career, appearing in six films of the highly-successful and exhilarating Fast & Furious series. But the handsome blonde actor with striking blue eyes (his most recognizable features) has not been forgotten, and it rumored that he will still be a part of the next film in the Furious series, somehow. Paul’s best friend and fellow actor may have revealed how Paul will make a posthumous appearance in the films.