Asteroids Current Affairs, GK & News
Nasa launches Lucy Spacecraft
American Space Agency, NASA, launched the first-of-its kind mission on October 16, 2021 to study the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter. Highlights Trojan asteroids are two large clusters of space rocks, which are believed to be remnants of primordial material forming the outer planets of the solar system. The space probe is called as Lucy. It ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2021
Category: International Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Asteroids • Jupiter Trojans • Mission Lucy • NASA • UPSC
NASA To Launch Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission
American Space Agency, NASA has announced to launch “asteroid-killing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft” on November 24, 2021. Key Points The spacecraft will be launched, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. It will be launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Under this mission, NASA will build advanced technologies which would protect the Earth from hazardous asteroid collision. Background ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2021
Category: International Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Asteroid Collision • asteroid-killing Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft • Asteroids • DART mission • kinetic impactor technology • NASA (United States)
What is 2020 SO?
2020 SO, a Near Earth Object (NEO), has been identified to be the Centaur upper stage rocket booster that helped NASA carry its Surveyor Spacecraft towards the moon in 1966. The term ‘NEO’ is used to refer to an object with an orbit that brings it in close proximity with the Earth. When such NEOs ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Asteroids • centaurs • Lunar Mission • NASA • Near-Earth object • surveyor 2
Asteroid 16 Psyche
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA has found that 16 Psyche asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter is made of rare metals such as gold, cobalt, platinum, rhenium and iridium. The total worth of the precious metals in the asteroid has been estimated as 10,000 Quadrillion USD by NASA scientists. Highlights According to the ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Asteroid • Asteroid Belt • Asteroids • NASA • oxidation • psyche • Solar wind • Van Allen radiation belt
ISRO signs Memorandum of Understanding
The Indian Space Research Organization recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Aryabhata Research Institute of Observational Science (ARIES), Nainital. Highlights The ISRO and ARIES signed the MoU on the cooperation in the filed of Space Situational Awareness and Astrophysics. The space situation awareness includes Space object tracking, space orbit analysis and space weather ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Aries • Asteroids • ISRO • Meteorites • space • Space Debris • Space Situation Awareness