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27 May

Indian Navy’s Information Fusion Centre gets bigger with induction of Sri Lankan naval officer

New Delhi: Sri Lanka has appointed its first International Liaison Officer to the New Delhi-based Information Fusion Centre for Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) earlier this week. Lieutenant Commander Indika Wijesinghe of the Sri Lanka Navy was inducted into the IFC-IOR in the presence of Milinda Moragoda, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India; Rear Admiral KM Ramakrishnan, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Cyber Security and Network Centric Operations); Captain Soumyajit Mohanty, Director IFC-IOR and the ILOs from Australia, France, Japan, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom and the US. The appointment took place just days before the four-member…

24 Jun

NASA CHESS mission to probe interstellar cloud

Washington: The third flight for the NASA-funded CHESS mission to probe how the interstellar cloud is structured is scheduled to take place on June 27.CHESS -- short for the Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph -- is a sounding rocket payload that will fly on a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket, NASA said. This would be the third flight for the CHESS payload in the past three years, and the mission's most detailed survey yet, the US space agency added. Deep in space between distant stars, space is not empty. Instead, there drifts vast clouds of neutral atoms and molecules, as well…

16 May

NASA Mars rover to study fluid-carved valley’s origin

Washington: Mars rover Opportunity has reached the main destination of its current two-year extended mission -- an ancient fluid-carved valley incised on the inner slope of a vast crater's rim, NASA has said. As the rover approached the upper end of "Perseverance Valley" in early May, images from its cameras began showing parts of the area in greater resolution than what can be seen in images taken from the orbit above Mars. "The science team is really jazzed at starting to see this area up close and looking for clues to help us distinguish among multiple hypotheses about how the valley…