SpaceX gets nod to put 12,000 satellites in orbit

WASHINGTON: SpaceX got the green light this week from US authorities to put a constellation of nearly 12,000 satellites into orbit in order to boost cheap, wireless internet access by the 2020s.The SpaceX network would vastly multiply the number of satellites around Earth.Since the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik, was launched in 1957, humanity has sent just over 8,000...

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New space industry emerges: on-orbit servicing

WASHINGTON: Imagine an airport where thousands of planes, empty of fuel, are left abandoned on the tarmac. That is what has been happening for decades with satellites that circle the Earth.When satellites run out of fuel, they can no longer maintain their precise orbit, rendering them useless even if their hardware is still intact.“It’s literally throwing away hundreds of millions...

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Driven to desperation by poverty, a rickshaw driver set his vehicle on fire and even tried to immolate himself

KARACHI: Just three days after a rickshaw driver committed self-immolation and later died when he was forced to pay extortion by a traffic cop, another similar case surfaced when a driver of three-wheeler attempted to burn himself due to poverty.According to details, rickshaw driver, Shahid, set his rickshaw on fire in North Nazimabad area of the city and also attempted to commit...

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Meet Allah Ditta, the selfless human who fights waves to help people.

Lahore: For 40 years, Allah Ditta has fought waves selflessly to help people live.Having saved 800 people and recovered 2,000 dead bodies, Allah Ditta says he cannot help being a savior to someone. Reminiscing a similar incident, he told ARY News, “A woman once jumped from the bridge to commit suicide, I caught her and brought her to safety. In return she slapped me really hard ...

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Here is what Pakistan should know about diabetes, a deadly disease

World Diabetes Day is being observed across the world today.World Diabetes Day was first observed in 1991 by International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to create awareness in the world about increasing threat posed by diabetes.World Health Organization described diabetes as: Diabetes is a chronic, progressive noncommunicable disease (NCD) characterized...

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Conjoined Bhutanese twins separated by surgery in Australia

MELBOURNE: Australian surgeons on Friday successfully separated 15-month-old Bhutanese twins, Nima and Dawa, who had been joined at the torso.The team of more than 20 doctors and nurses spent six hours operating on the pair, who shared a liver but no other major organs, to the relief of the surgeons.“We didn’t find surprises,” said Joe Crameri, who led the surgery at the Royal...

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