NASA Current Affairs, GK & News
DRACO: Nuclear Fission powered Spacecraft of NASA
DARPA of the USA is working on nuclear fission-powered spacecraft along with NASA called the DRACO. DARPA is Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. And DARPA is the research and development wing of the US military. Just like the DRDO of India. DARPA is to launch the DRACO Spacecraft. DRACO stands for Demonstration Rocket for Agile ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Defence Current Affairs • International / World Current Affairs
Topics: China-US • DARPA • Draco • Juice • NASA • Nuclear energy • Nuclear Fission • nuclear powered spacecraft • nuclear thermal rocket • Space exploration • Space Race • Space technology • Space Wars • US-China • US-China standoff • US-Russia
Israeli Astro Physics Mission: ULTRASAT
NASA and Israel will soon sign an agreement on a space mission. Under the agreement, the United States will help Israel in its upcoming Astrophysics Mission called ULTRASAT. The mission is currently being developed by Israel Space Agency and Germany. ULTRASAT will operate in Geo Stationary orbit. It is to carry a UV telescope. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: International / World Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Israel Space Agency • NASA • ULTRASAT • US-Israel
Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Project
NASA and Boeing will partner in the development and flight test of a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing demonstrator aircraft under SFD project. The partnership aims to revolutionize the commercial aviation industry through a much more fuel-efficient design of narrowbody airliners How SFD Project will work? The project aims to engage with industry, academia, and other ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: International / World Current Affairs
Topics: Aircraft • Boeing • NASA • Project
2022 : World’s Fifth-Warmest on Record
The world’s average global temperature is now 1.1C to 1.2C higher than in pre-industrial times, according to U.S. scientists. Last year was the joint fifth-warmest on record, and the last nine years were the nine warmest since pre-industrial times. This puts the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5C in serious jeopardy. ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Climate change • climate conference • CO2 emissions • COP28 • Global warming • NASA • Paris Agreement • Temperature • weather extremes
NASA spots Earth-sized, rocky Planet
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has discovered a second Earth-sized, rocky planet within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet’s surface. The planet, named TOI 700 e, is one of only a few systems with multiple, small, habitable-zone planets that we ..
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Earth-sized • Exoplanet • habitable zone • M dwarf star • multiple • NASA • rocky planet • small • Tess • TOI 700 • TOI 700 b • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT): NASA International Mission to Survey Earth’s Water
NASA has launched the newest Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft to track nearly all the water on the surface of the Earth. It was launched atop a SpaceX rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. It will remain operational for 3 years. What is SWOT mission? The Surface ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2022
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Canadian Space Agency (CSA) • Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) • NASA • SpaceX • Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft • Water resources