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Mission Prarambh: Meet the team firing up India’s first private rocket launch
Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharat Daka's Skyroot Aerospace is set to launch India's first private rocket on November 18. Chandana recounts to Moneycontrol how they went about the mission that would put their startup in the league of Elon Musk's SpaceX
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Data Protection Bill will penalise platforms for data misuse: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Rajeev Chandrasekhar made the remarks in response to reports that Google had agreed to pay $392 million in penalties for tracking the location of users who had logged out of Google apps.
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MeitY unblocks VLC Media Player website within month of being served legal notice
The legal notice had said that the blocking of the videolan.org URL was in violation of international obligations to protect free speech in India and had threatened legal proceedings against the government if a copy of the blocking order was not provided to VideoLAN
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MeitY looks to set up National Government Cloud to store sensitive govt, defence data locally
The government will establish a network of hyper scale data centres, which are massive facilities built by companies with vast data processing and storage needs, to create the National Government Cloud.
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Mission Prarambh: Skyroot Aerospace to launch Vikram-S from Sriharikota on November 18
Named after the father of India's space programme Vikram Sarabhai, the sub-orbital solid-stage rocket, made of carbon composite with 3D-printed motors, would carry three customer payloads.
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Agnikul Cosmos plans commercial launch of Agnibaan around March 2023
Agnikul Cosmos is planning a test launch of its two-stage booster Agnibaan in December 2022. And, based on the findings of the test launch, the startup plans to conduct a commercial launch with customer payloads in March or April 2023, co-founder and CEO Srinath Ravichandran said.
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What history tells us about 'first launches' of rockets
Ahead of Skyroot Aerospace's maiden flight of its launch vehicle Vikram-S, here's a look at what happened on the first flights of other private companies and giants like ISRO and NASA's respective launch vehicles.
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Skyroot Aerospace's Mission Prarambh: A closer look at India's first private rocket launch
The mission has been named 'Prarambh,' which means 'beginning,' to commemorate the beginning of private sector launches in India.
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Agnikul Cosmos successfully test fires 3D printed rocket engine
Unlike other rocket engines, Agnilet has been made in one go, without thousands of parts that are typically assembled in a conventional rocket engine
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Skyroot Aerospace set to launch India's first private rocket from ISRO's Sriharikota next week
The maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named 'Prarambh' (the beginning), will carry three customer payloads and is set for launch from Indian Space Research Organisation's launchpad at Sriharikota.
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UPI frauds contribute to 15.3% rise in cybercrime complaints between Q1 and Q2 of 2022
Looking specifically at 'UPI fraud complaints,' a cybercrime category under National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP), the number jumped from 62,350 in Q1 2022 to 84,145 in Q2 2022.
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Govt must clearly define data usage norms for facial recognition tech Digi Yatra: NITI Aayog
NITI Aayog has also urged the government to adopt a facial recognition model that is free of bias, which might result in incorrect decisions and, ultimately, exclusion from access.
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As MeiTY amends IT Act, industry sees digitisation opportunity in real estate, financial sector
NASSCOM said that if state government laws such as stamp duty and registration charges are also amended, it will now be possible to make all property transactions paperless.
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CERT-In cautions users about vulnerabilities in Cisco's VPN client
According to the agency, these vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute code in the targeted system or copy malicious files to key system directories.
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IT rules amendment: What it means for internet platforms and users in India
For users, these amendments provide a separate platform where they can appeal content moderation decisions of digital intermediaries, ranging from Facebook to an e-commerce company like Amazon
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IT Rules Amendment: Govt doesn't want to be internet ombudsman, says Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Minister of state for Electronics and Information Technology says the committee on content moderation will direct appeals to the right tribunals when they are outside MeitY's purview. He says the govt went ahead with the amendment only after social media platforms failed to come up with a self-regulatory organisation
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IT Rules amendment: Government threatens punitive provisions if intermediaries don't comply with GAC decisions
Any user aggrieved by a decision of an intermediary's own grievance officer can appeal to the GAC within 30 days
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Armed forces look to industry for solutions to tackle satcom problems
Obscure connectivity is a major issue faced by India's armed forces. In the western and northern borders, the challenges compound because of high mountains
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Revised uplinking-downlinking guidelines to be released in a month: I&B Secretary Apurva Chandra
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting secretary Apurva Chandra said that the deregulation of uplinking would help India's neighbours who lack their own satellites.
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Regulatory clarity necessary for more investments in space sector: Experts
The Draft Indian Space Policy is still under consideration and it is not yet clear when it will see the light of day.
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There will be multiple intermediaries defined in upcoming digital laws: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar also said that space and satellite sector will have interesting use cases that will catalyse startups in the Indian ecosystem.
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India’s first manned space mission by end of 2024 or early 2025: ISRO top official
Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) director R Umamaheshwaran explained that the proposed manned space flight will travel a distance of 400 km from Earth and will last two to three days.
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Hybrid terrestrial and satcom-capable drones required for countering connectivity issues, say experts
Drones flying beyond the visual line of sight can often lose connectivity with controller
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Satellite spectrum should not be regulated in upcoming telecom law: ISRO chairman S Somanath
Somanath said that ISRO will be communicating this concern regarding the India Telecommunications Bill to the ministry of communications requesting that in the final version of the bill the difference between satellite and terrestrial spectrum be explicitly mentioned.
