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SBI customers face glitches just before scheduled downtime

SBI customers face glitches just before scheduled downtime

Finance
Mumbai: Several customers of (SBI) faced issues processing online transactions hours before its scheduled maintenance outage. The bank, which upgraded its internet banking platform on Thursday, had informed customers about a four-hour maintenance activity although customers faced transaction failures early Thursday. Several customers took to social media to vent their frustration. While a few customers claimed that they were unable to receive payments, others said that transactions were failing while they were trying to transfer money using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Some users complained about the timing of undertaking such activity, at the start of a new fiscal year when transaction activity is especially high. The public sector lender had earlier tweeted about the scheduled ...
NASA astronaut scheduled for launch to space station Thursday

NASA astronaut scheduled for launch to space station Thursday

Science
April 8 (UPI) -- NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy is scheduled to travel to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan early Thursday morning with two Russian cosmonauts. Liftoff of the Soyuz rocket is planned for 4:05 a.m. EDT from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome. That will start a six-hour journey, orbiting the Earth four times before catching up to the space station. The launch is scheduled amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the passengers having undergone a two-week isolation period before departure. They have very little human contact during that period, except for close monitoring of health conditions, according to NASA.[embedded content] As with most crewed Soyuz launches, very little additional equipment or science will be on board. A SpaceX cargo capsule delivered supplies to th...
Indian moon lander found after going silent before scheduled landing

Indian moon lander found after going silent before scheduled landing

Science
Sept. 8 (UPI) -- India's lunar lander has been found on the surface of the moon after going silent moment before it was scheduled for a soft landing, the Indian Space Research Organization said Sunday. The agency has not been able to contact Vikram, which was supposed to land on the moon's south pole Saturday. Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, which is is revolving around the moon, shot a thermal image of the Vikram lander. Its condition wasn't known, ISRO chief K Sivan told India Today TV. India Today TV reported the Chandrayaan-2 team will investigate final emissions and signals to find out why communication loss with Vikram lander. "We are trying to establish a contact," Sivan told ANI. "It will be communicated soon." He added it would be "premature to say anything" about the status of the land...