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FEBRUARY 2019-SCIENCE AND TECH NEWS

ISRO successfully launched Microsat R into space

  • Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) first mission of 2019, Microsat-R, was successfully launched into space.

  • PSLV-C44 was launched from the older First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

  • The 130-kg Microsat-R is a military imaging satellite.

ISRO to launch two unmanned space missions in 2020 and 2021

  • ISRO announced that two unmanned space missions to be launched in the year 2020 and 2021.

  • Country’s first manned space flight Gaganyaan will send three humans into space for seven days by December 2021, which will carry humanoids not animals.

  • Inorder to boost the Space Mission in India, the Union Cabinet had approved Rs 10,000 crore budget for the proposed human spaceflight mission.

Japan Launches Satellite For World’s 1st Artificial Meteor Shower

  • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has launched Tokyo-based startup Star-ALE’s mini-satellite aimed to deliver the world’s first artificial meteor shower.

  • The satellite carries 400 tiny balls, will be enough for 20-30 events, that will glow as they rush down the atmosphere on being released.

  • ALE plans to deliver its first show in Hiroshima in early 2020.

India’s 1st Manned Mission To Space By December 2021: ISRO

  • ISRO Chairman Dr. K Sivan has announced that the organization is well prepared to meet the targets of launching Gaganyaan manned mission to outer space by December 2021.

  • Under Gaganyaan project, India is planning to send three astronauts to outer space for seven days and bring them back.

NASAs TESS found a new planet

  • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), NASA’s latest planet-hunting probe, has discovered a new world outside our solar system, orbiting a dwarf star 53 light years away.

  • This is the third new planet confirmed by TESS.

  • The planet has been named as HD 21749b.

China: Lunar rover named ‘Yutu-2’, lands on the far side of the moon

  • Lunar rover Yutu-2 or Jade Rabbit-2 of the Chang’e-4 spacecraft made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon.

  • Images were sent back to the Earth via the relay satellite ‘Queqiao’.

Chandrayaan-2 mission launch most likely in Feb

  • Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will most likely launch Chandrayaan-2, the country’s second mission to the Moon in the month of February.
  • Chandrayaan-2 mission is a totally indigenous venture comprising of an orbiter, a lander and a rover.
  • There would be a controlled descent and the lander would soft-land on the lunar surface at a specified site and deploy a rover.

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