In Li-Fi, Li refers to Light. Li-Fi is the term used for fast and cheap wireless-communication system, which is the optical version of Wi-Fi. The term was used...
The Kuafu project is a Chinese space project to establish a space weather forecasting system composed of three satellites, to be completed by 2012. One of these satellites...
Aditya-1 is an Indian spacecraft for study of the Sun. It was conceptualised in 2008 and was built and launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Aditya...
Moore’s law is basically a thumb rule in computing (hardware) that says that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately...
Lucy is 3.2-million-year-old fossil that was also found in Ethiopia. It was recently in news, as the scientists said that Lucy had shared eastern Africa with another prehuman...
Ardi is a primitive homonid fossils with scientific name Australopithecus ramidus. It was first found in Ethiopia in 1992, but it took 17 years to assess their significance....
Theia is the name of a Mars-size protoplanet which is said to have impacted earth giving rise to moon. The name is derived from the mythical Greek titan...
Dragon C3 is the third flight for SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon cargo spacecraft, the fourth overall flight for the company’s two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle, and flight 1 of...
COTS Demo Flight 2 was the second test-flight for SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon cargo spacecraft, Dragon C2+, and the third overall flight for the company’s two-stage Falcon 9 launch...
Laser broom refers to the ground-based laser beam-powered propulsion system that is aimed to sweep space debris out of the path of other artificial satellites such as the...
