16-10-2021 The Asian Independent

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16-10-2021 to 31-10-2021
Keen to offer solutions to UAE, says K'taka minister
Bengaluru. Karnataka being a
hub of startups in India is keen to
offer ground-breaking solutions
to private companies and government
organisations of UAE in
various sectors ranging from
logistics to infrastructure, oiland-gas
to environment and
waste management to healthcare
C.N. Ashwath Narayan, the
Minister for IT/Bt and Science
Technology said in Dubai on
Saturday.
Addressing the Inauguration
Ceremony of 3 days event
'World Dubai Expo 2020', he
said that some of the sectors in
the UAE that are witnessing the
massive presence of Indians,
especially Bengaluru based startups
and tech majors.
"Karnakata government
which is playing the role of a
facilitator has been undertaking
all tech-focused initiatives in
line with achieving the vision
set by our Prime Minister
Narendra Modi to make India
reach the 5 trillion dollar economy
by 2025. Shared economic
visions and geopolitical outlooks
have spurred the two
sides (Karnataka and UAE) to
seek to expand cooperation
across multiple domains
including in investment, technology,
and the knowledge
economy", Minister Narayan
explained.
Karnataka is one of the prosperous
states in India with an
estimated GSDP of $220 billion
and has been a leader in
sectors of Information
Technology, I-T enabled services,
Electronics, Machine
Tools, Aerospace, and
Biotechnology, he pointed out.
Further, the Minister added,
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"Karnataka has a robust Startup
which includes MNCs/GCCs,
incubators, and accelerators.
Besides the State is home to
premier higher education institutions
such as Indian Institute
of Science (IISc), the Indian
Institute of Management (IIM),
the International Institute of
Information Technology (IIIT),
and several others. The state
has sector-specific policies for
IT, BT, Electronics System
Design & Manufacturing
(ESDM), Animation, Visual
Effects, Gaming and Comics
(AVGC) in order to give a push
to the growth of the technology
sectors and innovation in the
State." He said, Karnataka is a
leading global innovation hub
due to partnerships established
with innovation hubs such as
UAE, adding that the government
of Karnataka is interested
to strengthen its relationship
with the UAE on common
grounds of innovation and
technology.
NASA sends Lucy mission to seek out solar system's 'fossils'
Washington. In a novel bid to
seek out the origin of our solar
system, the US space agency on
Saturday launched the Lucy mission,
the agency's first to
Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
Launched atop the United
Launch Alliance Atlas V 401
rocket from the Cape Canaveral
Space Force Station in Florida in
the US at around 3 p.m. (India
time), Lucy will circle back to
Earth three times for gravity
assists, making it the first spacecraft
to return to the vicinity of
Earth from the outer solar system.
During its 12-year primary
mission, Lucy will explore a
record-breaking number of asteroids,
including a flyby of one
asteroid in the solar system's
main belt and seven Trojan asteroids
near Jupiter.
"Lucy embodies NASA's
enduring quest to push out into
the cosmos for the sake of exploration
and science, to better
understand the universe and our
place within it," said NASA
Administrator Bill Nelson. "I
can't wait to see what mysteries
the mission uncovers!"
Lucy will explore the Trojan
asteroids with a suite of remote
sensing instruments.
Additionally, the navigation
cameras will be used to determine
the shapes of the Trojan
asteroids.
Lucy will be the first spacecraft
to study Jupiter's Trojan
Asteroids.
These small bodies are remnants
of our early solar system,
now trapped in stable orbits
associated with -- but not close
to -- the giant planet Jupiter.
The Trojan asteroids are in
two "swarms" that lead and follow
Jupiter in its orbit around the
Sun and are almost as numerous
as the objects in the Main
Asteroid Belt.
These primitive bodies hold
vital clues to deciphering the history
of the solar system.
"A true mission of discovery,
Lucy is rich with opportunity to
learn more about these mysterious
Trojan asteroids and better
understand the formation and
evolution of the early solar system,"
said Thomas Zurbuchen,
associate administrator for the
Science Mission Directorate at
the agency's Headquarters in
Washington, DC.
The spacecraft's first Earth
gravity assist in 2022 will accelerate
and direct Lucy's trajectory
beyond the orbit of Mars. The
spacecraft will then swing back
toward Earth for another gravity
assist in 2024, which will propel
Lucy toward the
Donaldjohanson asteroid - located
within the solar system's main
asteroid belt - in 2025.
"It will still be several years
before we get to the first
Trojan asteroid, but these
objects are worth the wait and
all the effort because of their
immense scientific value.
They are like diamonds in the
sky," said Hal Levison, Lucy
principal investigator from the
Southwest Research Institute
(SwRI).
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