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Power outages every other hour
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Nighttime outages are mostly unscheduled, with distributors including the caveat that there may be load-shedding after midnight if needed.
Schedules this week added at least an additional hour or two of load-shedding than that of last week.
Some areas are bearing the brunt more than others. The residents of nearby Jurain got a better deal than Shyampur.
According to yesterday’s load-shedding schedule for areas under DPDC, Jurain and Postogola would have had at least six hours of load-shedding with residents getting some relief only after 2:00am.
The entirety of Lalbagh saw up to five hours of load-shedding yesterday, with two of those outages happening at night. According to the schedule, residents got only four hours of uninterrupted power supply at night.
Most of the areas served by the Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited (Desco) experienced a minimum of five hours of outages.
Official Desco schedules however kept the outages limited between 9:00am and midnight -- although consumers reported regular night outages at least once every night.
Some areas in Mirpur experienced six hours of load-shedding.
Bikash Dewan, managing director of DPDC, said, “We failed [to provide electricity to the customers]. We are in a miserable situation where we are not getting electricity as per the demand.
“For the previous few days, we have been getting less electricity than the allotment. The shortage of 500-550MW is huge in Dhaka. We have nothing to do without conducting load-shedding in different areas for four to five hours a day,” he added.
Md Kausar Ameer Ali, managing director of Desco, in the evening said they have a shortage of around 300MW since last week. “But today’s [yesterday’s] situation is good as of now as we have a shortage of 150MW.”
Shameem Hasan, spokesperson of Bangladesh Power Development Board, said although the production is increasing, the demand is also increasing.
“If there is rain for even half an hour, you could see a dramatic change in the gap between demand and supply. We had hoped the temperature would start dropping this month, but that did not happen.”

Nasa’s Lucy probe
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#SpotTheSpacecraft, or images of themselves waving at the passing Lucy using the hashtag #WaveToLucy.
Members of the Lucy mission team based on Colorado had to drive to Nebraska to get out from under cloud cover in order to capture the video of Lucy streaking overheard that they then shared on the social media website Twitter.
Pluto researcher Marc Buie took an image of Lucy that was shared by French space-blog Twitter account @RevesdEspace, while the Virtual Telescope Project, an international robotic telescope cooperative, also capture Lucy images.
Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, meanwhile, has shared animations on Twitter illustrating Lucy’s Earth flyby and subsequent mission. The animations also highlight the spacecraft’s unique, circular solar panels, each 24 feet in diameter — large enough to supply Lucy with the 500 watts of power the spacecraft will need while traveling through the dark reaches of space among the asteroids near Jupiter.
Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 16 October 2021, Lucy is Nasa’s first mission to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.
Sunday’s flyby of Earth gave Lucy added momentum, slingshotting the spacecraft out toward the orbit of Mars in a manoeuvre known as a gravity assist. Lucy will make another gravity assist pass by Earth in 2024 before finally heading out toward its first targets.
The spacecraft will first fly by an asteroid known as Donaldjohanson in the main asteroid belt in 2025, a space rock that is not a Jupiter Trojan, but is conveniently located along the way.
Lucy will then reach the leading population of Jupiter Trojans in 2027, flying by four space rocks, Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus, each named for characters in the Homeric epic The Iliad.
Lucy will finally head back to Earth for another gravity assist flyby of our planet in 2031, which will put the spacecraft on a course to visit the trailing population of Jupiter Trojans in 2033.