Tag: Space

In News A mysterious and intensely bright flash of light coming from halfway across the universe earlier this year had stunned astronomers worldwide. Key Findings The source of the intense beam has now been identified — a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star, pointing directly at Earth.  The jet of light was brighter than […]

In News  Hyderabad-based Skyroot’s Vikram-S is all set to make its maiden flight from the country’s only spaceport in Sriharikota making it India’s first privately developed launch vehicle. The mission is code named ‘Prarambh’.  About the Prarambh mission It will mark the beginning of private sector launches in India. The development of privately built rockets […]

In News Recently, SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into a geosynchronous Earth orbit from the Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S. The rocket is carrying satellites to space for the U.S. military in a mission named U.S. Space Force (USSF)-44. Falcon Heavy rocket It is considered as the most […]

In News ISRO’s RISAT-2 satellite has made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere in the Indian Ocean near Jakarta.  About ISRO’s RISAT-2 satellite Background RISAT-2 was launched by the PSLV-C12 launch vehicle in 2009.  The initial designed life of the satellite was four years. Functions It was a radar-imaging satellite that was India’s first […]

In News Recently, China released its official whitepaper titled “China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in the New Era”.  Background What is the BeiDou navigation system? Background China initiated BeiDou in 1994 with aims to integrate its application in different sectors, including fishery, agriculture, special care, mass-market applications, forestry and public security.  Global navigation network  BDS […]

In News Recently, China launched its third and final permanent space station component (Tiangong space station).   About Mengtian module  Mengtian is the second lab module and the last major component of China’s space station.  It means “heavenly dream”. Mengtian will later be relocated to its permanent position and the three modules Tianhe, Wentian lab module […]

In News Recently, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Captured dark patches on the sun’s surface resembling eyes and a smile NASA explained that the patches are called coronal holes. Image Courtesy :IE About Coronal Hole It is a patch of the Sun’s atmosphere with much lower density than elsewhere.   In ultraviolet views of the Sun, coronal […]

In News Recently, researchers simulated the harsh ionising radiation on Mars in a new study where they found that ancient bacteria could potentially survive close to the surface of the planet much longer than previously thought. A new study shatters that record, finding the hearty bacterium could survive 280 million years if buried. This means […]

In News Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) heaviest rocket Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3 or GSLV Mark 3) has successfully orbited 36 satellites of U.K.-based One Web.  The launch is also the first for LVM3-M2 to place the satellites in the Low Earth Orbit (up to 1,200 km above the earth) unlike Geosynchronous […]