Friday 29th March 2024

India Received NISAR Satellite For Space Mission

On Wednesday, March 8, the United States Air Force handed over the NISAR satellite to the Indian space agency. The US Air Force C-17 aircraft brought an Earth observation satellite known as NISAR and landed in Bengaluru to hand over to India Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

The US Consulate General Chennai tweeted, “Touchdown in Bengaluru!”  to inform that ISRO received NISAR.

See the Tweet here.

The satellite  NASA-ISRO synthetic aperture radar (NISAR) is a project collaboratively developed by NASA and ISRO. This was envisioned eight years ago in 2014 by NASA and ISRO to launch dual frequency synthetic aperture radar on an Earth observation satellite.

NISAR will be the first dual frequency radar imaging satellite that uses two different frequencies (L-band and S-band). According to the NISAR’s official website, it is designed with a Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that can produce fine-resolution images even from a resolution-limited radar system.

The NISAR mission is planned to launch in January 2024 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, into a near-polar orbit. It will operate for at least three years, map the globe in 12 days, and send consistent data to study in detail Earth’s dynamic land and ice surfaces.

The NISAR will be used for various purposes by ISRO. It will provide a bunch of data and information that helps to measure the changes on the planet’s surface, such as melting glaciers, changes in carbon storage, sea level rise, depletion in groundwater levels, and examining the impact of global warming.

It will also help to manage natural hazards such as tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions to assess and manage the risk better by making response times faster.

Moreover, it will help to improve agriculture, such as crop growth, and detect the early signs of drought by measuring soil moisture and wildfires.

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SpaceX Launched Crew-6 To International Space Station

On March 2, 2023, Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched Falcon 9 rocket carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a UAE astronaut, to the International Space station for NASA.

The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission blasted off at 12:34 am from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

All four astronauts are Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoberg from NASA, Andrey Fedyaev from Russia, and Sultan Al-Neyadi from United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The mission is focused on scientific research and is expected to spend six months on the orbiting station.

Monday’s launch was canceled just minutes before liftoff due to a clog in the filter supplying the ignition fluid to start the rocket engine.

The US space agency tweeted on Thursday that the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor “lights up the skies as the crew heads into orbit.”

On the top of a Falco 9 rocket, SpaceX launched its Dragon crew capsule called Endeavour. Interestingly, both the capsule and rocket are reusable and can be used for flying for further missions.

The current dragon crew is the sixth to be carried by a SpaceX rocket to the ISS. The Endeavor capsule has flown to space three times before.

Approximately every six months, NASA pays SpaceX to fly astronauts to the ISS.

Now the agency expected to get Crew-6 handover by Space X for several days with the four members of Crew-5 that have been on the ISS since October. Crew-5 will then return to Earth.

The next mission from the Space Coast will be the launch of Relativity Space’s Terran rocket from Launch Complex 16 pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The company is aiming for the first launch of its Terran rocket no earlier than March 8, 2023, which is mostly 3D printed and can be built in weeks instead of months or years using fewer parts.

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