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NASA announces SUNRISE Mission
On March 30, 2020, NASA announced Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SUNRISE) mission. The mission is to study about how sun creates Giant Solar Particle Storms. Highlights Studying the solar storms, the mission aims to understand the working of the ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2020
Suspension of Space Activities
The European Space Agency announced that it would be putting 8 of its spacecrafts into ‘hibernation’ in light of the COVID-19 situation leading to a scaling down of operations. About ESA ESA or European Space Agency (also ASE) is an ..
Corona Virus: NASA reports Pollution Levels in China have dropped greatly
On March 2, 2020, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) reported that Nitrous Oxide pollution in China has declined greatly between January and February 2020. According to the report, nitrous oxide pollution has declined by more than 100 tonnes of ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2020
Katharine Johnson
NASA mathematician, Katharine Johnson, passed away at the age of 101 recently. She is noted for not only for her mathematical prowess but also for her role in breaking racial and gender barriers. Who was Katharine Johnson? Katharine Johnson was ..
Artemis Program
The NASA announced that it will start accepting applications for the Artemis mission to the moon from March 2nd to March 31st of 2020. What is the Artemis Program? The Artemis program is an upcoming crewed mission to moon. It ..
One year’s worth of data from NASA’s InSight mission
NASA released a year’s worth of data from its InSight mission to Mars. The findings were released in a set of six papers that has provided new information about the Red Planet. What is the InSight mission acronym for? The ..
NASA sends probes to map poles of the sun
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) of the United States and the ESA (European Space Agency) will send space probes to the sun to map its poles. The solar orbiter was launched on February 9, 2020. Highlights The probe will ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2020
NASA’s astronaut Christina Koch creates world record
The noted astronaut of the US- based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Christina Koch recently completed the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman. Christina Koch landed through a parachute at Kazakhstan, from the Russian Soyuz spacecraft she was onboard. ..
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope decommissioned
The historic infrared space telescope, called the Spitzer Space Telescope, which was launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was recently decommissioned. The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003 for a two-and-a-half-year mission. But it has been ..
TESS discovered its first Earth-size Habitable-Zone Planet
Responsible for civilian space program and aeronautics & aerospace research in United States, the independent agency of the United States Federal Government, NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s planet hunter-Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TISS) has discovered its first Earth-size Habitable-zone ..