NASA climate research scientist, Cynthia Rosenzweig has been awarded World Food Prize. She is an agronomist and climatologist and spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate She was awarded $250,000 prize in recognition of her innovative modeling of the impact of climate change on food production. She is a senior research […]
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The US space agency, NASA has successfully launched next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-T) was launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It has been confirmed that the spacecraft’s solar arrays were successfully placed, and the spacecraft is
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced its plan that the International Space Station will be kept operated until the end of 2030, after which the ISS would be crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo. NASA says it plans to retire the International Space Station in 2031 by crashing it
The International Space Station (ISS) will continue working until 2030, before plunging into the Pacific Ocean in early 2031, according to Nasa. Mission control of ISS will first lower its altitude, before spacecraft begins its descent into South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area (SPOUA) in an area known as Point Nemo. ISS: modular space station in low Earth
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The US Space agency, NASA, has launched Phase 2 of the challenge called as ‘Deep Space Food Challenge’ in coordination with the Canadian Space Agency. The competition invites teams to design, build, and demonstrate innovative and sustainable prototypes of food production technologies and produce food for judging. Giving future explorers the technology to produce nutritious, tasty, and satisfying meals on
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Jahnavi Dangeti, a young girl from Andhra Pradesh, has just completed NASA’s International Air and Space Program (iasp nasa) at the Kennedy Space Centre in Alabama, US, making her the first Indian to accomplish this feat. She is part of a carefully shortlisted group of 20 students from around the world. Jahnavi was one among only 20 young people
The NASA team successfully completed the deployment of 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror panel of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on January 08, 2022. James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed its sunshield — a critical feature the observatory will use to keep its instruments extra cold during the course of its mission. The unfurling of the sunshield marks the end of
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NASA’s $10 billion telescopes James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope developed by NASA with contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The revolutionary world’s first-of-its-kind space-science observatory of the next decade will capture the earliest galaxies believed to have formed during the early universe’s formation. The new telescope will help scientists to probe the structures and origins
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NASA has announced that the Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona, for the first time. While there, the probe sampled particles and magnetic fields and captured historic, close-up photos of coronal streamers. In 2018, launched the Parker Solar Probe aims to unravel the mysteries of the Sun by travelling closer to it. After
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Indian-origin physician Anil Menon (45) has been selected by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions. Menon, 45, was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants. Menon was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during Nasa’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. Till now, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma is
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