Aditya-L1 Current Affairs, GK & News
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) The ejections from the Sun are technically called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). These cause several ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Aditya-L1 • CIISCO • CMEs Identification in Inner Solar Corona (CIISCO) • Computer Aided CME Tracking Software (CACTus) • Computer Aided CME Tracking Software (CACTus) and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) • Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
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 moon mission Chandrayaan-3, the solar mission Aditya-L1 and first Indian Data Relay Satellite in the ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2021
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Aditya-L1 • Chandrayaan 3 • First Solar Mission • Indian Data Relay Satellite System (IDRSS) • ISRO • Lunar Mission
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 Astrophysics (IIA) is also a Co-Investigator of the PUNCH mission. The acronym ‘PUNCH’ stands for ..
Topics: Aditya-L1 • Astronomy • Astrophysics • Corona • Light sources • Plasma physics • Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere • Punch • Solar phenomena • Solar physics • Space plasmas • Space Science
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 30 years. Key Highlights Out of seven missions Chandrayaan-2, will be flight ready by May ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2019
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Aditya-L1 • Exoworlds • India's Space Missions • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) • ISRO • Lunar Polar Exploration • Mangalyaan-2 • Raman Research Institute • Seven Mega Missions • Venus mission • XPoSat
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 carrying one payload, the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) and was planned to launch in ..
Topics: Aditya-L1 • Halo orbit • In spaceflight • Indian Space Research Organisation • Lagrangian point • Outer space • Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle • PSLV-C38 • PSLV-C43 • Spacecraft • Spaceflight