US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
This billionaire is travelling to space and the launch will be broadcasted live: How to watch it
Two space tourists are all set to launch toward the International Space Station on Wednesday, December 8. The 12-day mission organized via Virginia-based company Space Adventures will take off at 2:38 AM EST (1:08 PM IST).
Yusaku Maezawa, the billionaire who is into online fashion retail is said to have invested million dollars for the trip. Along with him will fly Yozo Hirano, a video producer who will be documenting the experience. Veteran cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos will be onboard as well.
The mission on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft will commence from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. As pointed out by Space, only a few space tourists have flown so far, but it is expected to increase via private missions to the space station, with suborbital flights launched by business tycoon Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, among others.
As for the two space tourists launch, the trio’s flight will start with a six-hour ride to the International Space Station, with docking at the station’s Poisk module expected at around 8:41 AM EST (7:11 PM IST), as per Space report.
NASA Television will cover the Soyuz spacecraft launch and stream it live from 2 AM EST (12:30 PM IST). You can catch the action live on the NASA app, and NASA’s official social media channels. The experience in space will be shared on Maezawa’s YouTube channel as well.
How to watch space tourists launch live
As mentioned the week’s launch will take place on December 8 (December 7, US night time). Following a six-hour ride, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft will dock with the space station’s Poisk module around 8:41 AM ET. Two hours after docking Maezawa, Hirano, and Misurkin will make their way into the ISS, where they will join the orbiting lab’s Expedition 66 that include the members- commander Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos; NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron; and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer.
NASA will carry coverage of the launch and docking and you can watch Hirano’s mission on NASA’s website. We have embedded the link below for easy access.
Notably, coverage will commence 38 minutes before the launch at 2 AM ET. Docking coverage will begin 41 minutes prior to the spacecraft arriving at the orbiting outpost. As Space outlet cites, an international team of researchers will collect a variety of data about Hirano before, during, and after the upcoming ISS mission. It is organized by Virginia company Space Adventures. Scientists will release ‘anonymized data’ along with the health information to the institute’s database. TRISH says that this research will help “to reduce health and performance risks that space explorers face.”
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