Kuafu-1: China’s first space-based solar telescope

The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) – China’s first space-based solar telescope – was launched recently. Key facts The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) was launched aboard the Long March-2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern ..

Tags: Aditya-L1 • Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) • Kuafu-1 • Satellites • Solar Flares

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2022

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Computer Aided CME Tracking Software (CACTus) and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)

Scientists have developed a new technique for tracking the huge bubbles of gas threaded with magnetic field lines that are ejected from the Sun, disrupting space weather and causing satellite failures, geomagnetic storms, and power outages. Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) ..

Tags: Aditya-L1 • CIISCO • CMEs Identification in Inner Solar Corona (CIISCO) • Computer Aided CME Tracking Software (CACTus) • Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021

ISRO decade plan

The Indian Space Research Organization recently released the plan for the decade. The plan included reusable satellite launch vehicle, heavy lift rocket and semi-cryogenic engine. What are the key highlights of the ISRO Decade plan? ISRO is to complete its ..

Tags: Aditya-L1 • Chandrayaan 3 • First Solar Mission • Indian Data Relay Satellite System (IDRSS) • ISRO

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021

Dipankar Banerjee selected as Co-Investigator for NASA’s PUNCH mission

NASA has selected Texas-based Southwest Research Institute to lead its PUNCH mission which will image the Sun. This is a landmark mission that will image regions beyond the Sun’s outer corona. Prof. Dipankar Banerjee, solar physicist from Indian Institute of ..

Tags: Aditya-L1 • Astronomy • Astrophysics • Corona • Light sources

ISRO announces Seven Mega Missions

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), recently announced its planned seven mega missions, including Chandrayaan-2 (India’s second lunar exploration mission) which will be conducted over a period of next 10 years. The ISRO has also prepared a roadmap for next ..

Tags: Aditya-L1 • Exoworlds • India's Space Missions • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) • ISRO

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2019

Aditya-L1 mission to be India’s first solar mission to take off in 2019

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch the India’s first mission to the Sun “Aditya-L1 mission” from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on the PSLV- XL launch vehicle in 2019. The Aditya-1 mission was conceived as a 400kg class satellite ..

Tags: Aditya-L1 • Halo orbit • In spaceflight • Indian Space Research Organisation • Lagrangian point