NOVEMBER 2018-SCIENCE AND TECH NEWS
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ISRO to launch hi-tech imaging satellite with 30 foreign satellites
NASA InSight Lands on Mars 7 months after launch
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NASA’s InSight spacecraft landed on Mars after nearly a 7 months, 458-million-kilometre journey, and a 6.5-minute parachuted descent through the Red Planet’s atmosphere.
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The 360-kg lander also shared its first photo from Mars, showing an area called Elysium Planitia, where it will dig five meters below the surface.
China builds an ‘artificial sun’ that reaches temperatures six times that of Sun
- China has built an ‘artificial sun’ that reaches 100 million °C, 6 times the temperature of Sun’s core of 15 million °C.
- Scientists from China’s Institute of Plasma Physics announced that plasma in their Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) also called the ‘artificial sun’, reached 100 million °C, the temperature required to perform nuclear fusion on Earth.
ISRO successfully launch GSLV Mk III-D2 carrying GSAT-29 satellite
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its latest communication satellite GSAT-29, which was put in Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit by India’s 5th generation heavy-lift rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III D2 (GSLV-Mk III D2).
ISRO invites foreign experiments for 2023 Venus mission
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has issued an announcement of opportunity (AO) to international space scientists to propose their scientific payloads to be carried on its mission to Venus planned for 2023.
- This AO has a specific objective to identify important science experiments that are in line with the pre-selected proposals from India.
China launches new high-orbit satellite to boost its BeiDou global satellite navigation system
- This is the first BeiDou-3 satellite in high orbit, nearly 36,000 km above the Earth.
- It will follow the Earth’s rotation, in a geostationary orbit, and will view the same point on Earth continuously.
- The satellite will serve countries in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
India successfully conducted night trial of Agni-I ballistic missile
- India has successfully carried out night user trial of Agni-I short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
- The test flight was conducted by Indian Army’s Strategic Forces Command off Abdul Kalam Island in Bay of Bengal, off the coast of the Indian state of Odisha.
NASA retires its Planet Hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope
- The Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and will be retired after a 9.5 year mission in which it detected thousands of planets beyond our solar system and boosted the search for worlds that might harbour alien life.
- The Kepler telescope discovered more than 2,600 of the roughly 3,800 exoplanets that have been documented in the past two decades.
Pakistan to send first manned space mission in 2022
- Pakistan has decided to launch its first manned mission in 2022, the same year that India has planned to launch its own manned space mission.
- The decision was taken during Pakistan’s federal cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
- The cabinet approved the plan of sending an astronaut to space for the first time in 2022 with China’s help.
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