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Indian-American, A C Charania named new chief technologist of NASA

Indian-American, A C Charania named new chief technologist of NASA- An Indian-American aerospace expert, AC Charania has been appointed as new chief technologist of NASA. AC Charania replaced Indian-American scientist Bhavya Lal, who served as acting chief technologist prior to the former’s appointment. Charania is set to serve as principal advisor to Administrator Bill Nelson on technology policy […]

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NASA Launches International Mission ‘SWOT’ to Survey Earth’s Water

NASA Launches International Mission ‘SWOT’ to Survey Earth’s Water: The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the French space agency Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) have jointly 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 from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on

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NASA International Mission to Survey Earth’s Water

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

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NASA’s Artemis mission launches successfully

NASA’s Artemis mission launches successfully: NASA launched the Artemis I mission from Florida at 1:47 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning, with the agency’s most powerful rocket ever kicking off a nearly month-long journey with a ground-shaking liftoff. November 2022 Current Affairs Quiz While no astronauts are onboard, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carried the

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IIT-Madras, NASA researchers study microbes on International Space Station

IIT-Madras, NASA researchers study microbes on International Space Station : The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers have studied the interactions between microbes in the International Space Station (ISS). October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz Finding: A microbe that resides on the ISS, was found to be beneficial to various other microorganisms but hampered the growth of a

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NASA’s DART Mission successfully changed the course of an asteroid

NASA’s DART Mission successfully changed the course of an asteroid: NASA has announced that Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has successfully managed to change the motion of the asteroid ‘Dimorphos’. October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz This is the first demonstration of the “kinetic impactor” method of asteroid mitigation. It was launched in November 2021 and crashed into the space rock on September 26,

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 launches to International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 launches to International Space Station: SpaceX has launched group of four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Crew-5 mission, from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz This is the first time that the SpaceX has launched a Russian cosmonaut on its vehicle, which comes as part

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Moxie instrument of NASA successfully makes oxygen on Mars

Moxie instrument of NASA successfully makes oxygen on Mars : The Mars oxygen in-situ resource utilisation experiment (MOXIE) has been successfully producing oxygen from Mars carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere since February 2021. September 2022 Current Affairs Quiz MOXIE, is a lunchbox-sized gadget that generated breathable oxygen on Mars which is equivalent to the effort of a tiny tree. MOXIE was landed on the Mars surface as part

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NASA’s moon rocket moved to launch pad for 1st test flight

NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers, many of whom were not yet born when NASA sent astronauts to the moon a half-century

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NASA launches CAPSTONE to evaluate new orbit for Artemis Moon Missions

The first step of NASA’s CubeSat mission to the Moon has been successfully completed in space. It was built to test a novel lunar orbit. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission has been launched on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex, New Zealand. CAPSTONE is currently in low orbit of Earth

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