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Iasbaba's 60 Day Science and Tech Compilation
IASbaba’s 60 day Science and Tech Compilation 2019 Q.1) NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS – Rex has recently arrived at its destination. Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding it? 1. The mission will land at near earth orbit asteroid, Bennu and will bring a rock sample on earth. 2. The aim of the mission is to discover formation of water and organic molecules on mars. 3. This will be the world’s first space asteroid sampling. Select the code from following: a) 1 only b) 2 and 3 c) 1 and 3 d) All of the above Q.1) Solution (a) The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer spacecraft will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36), and bring at least a 2.1-ounce sample back to Earth for study. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve our understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth. For your Information: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, provides overall mission management, systems engineering and safety and mission assurance for OSIRIS-REx. Dante Lauretta is the mission's principal investigator at the University of Arizona. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver is building the spacecraft. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages New Frontiers for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. NOTE: This is not the first asteroid sampling mission. It was done in 2010 by Japan space agency JAXA. -
The Aerospace Update
The Aerospace Update Dec. 28, 2017 Top 2017 Space Images Video Credit: NASA SpaceX Concludes 2017 With Fourth Iridium Next launch SpaceX closed out its most successful year to date Dec. 22nd with the launch of 10 satellites for mobile satellite services operator Iridium, notching a personal best of 18 launches in a single year. The Falcon 9 mission, which took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 8:27 p.m. Eastern in an instantaneous launch window, was the fourth of eight missions for Iridium, carrying the McLean, Virginia- based operator’s second generation satellites, called Iridium Next. In what now is considered a rarity, SpaceX opted not to recover the rocket’s first stage, instead letting the booster fall into the Pacific Ocean. Video Credit: SpaceX Source: Caleb Henry @ SpaceNews.com Zenit Rocket Launches AngoSat-1 but Ground Control Loses Contact A Russian-Ukrainian Zenit rocket was launched on Tuesday, December 26th, with the aim of delivering into orbit Angola’s first satellite, known as AngoSat-1. However, it appears that contact with the spacecraft was lost after its deployment into orbit. The booster lifted off from Site 45/1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Tuesday’s launch marked the first Zenit flight in more than two years when it orbited the Elektro-L № 2 weather satellite for Roscosmos. The rocket returned to flight despite fears that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which started in 2014, would kill any joint efforts between these two countries. Video courtesy of SciNews Source: Tomasz Nowakowski @ SpaceFlightInsider.com Land Imaging Satellite Launched for Chinese Military A land imaging satellite soared to a 300-mile-high perch above Earth Saturday, Dec 23rd after lifting off on top of a Long March 2D rocket from the Jiuquan space base in the Gobi Desert, joining a similar military reconnaissance craft launched earlier this month in the same type of orbit. -
2019 China Military Power Report
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2019 Office of the Secretary of Defense Preparation of this report cost the Department of Defense a total of approximately $181,000 in Fiscal Years 2018-2019. This includes $12,000 in expenses and $169,000 in DoD labor. Generated on 2019May02 RefID: E-1F4B924 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2019 A Report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, as Amended Section 1260, “Annual Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China,” of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, Public Law 115-232, which amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, Section 1202, Public Law 106-65, provides that the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report “in both classified and unclassified form, on military and security developments involving the People’s Republic of China. The report shall address the current and probable future course of military-technological development of the People’s Liberation Army and the tenets and probable development of Chinese security strategy and military strategy, and of the military organizations and operational concepts supporting such development over the next 20 years. -
India and China Space Programs: from Genesis of Space Technologies to Major Space Programs and What That Means for the Internati
University of Central Florida STARS Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019 2009 India And China Space Programs: From Genesis Of Space Technologies To Major Space Programs And What That Means For The Internati Gaurav Bhola University of Central Florida Part of the Political Science Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Masters Thesis (Open Access) is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019 by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Bhola, Gaurav, "India And China Space Programs: From Genesis Of Space Technologies To Major Space Programs And What That Means For The Internati" (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019. 4109. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4109 INDIA AND CHINA SPACE PROGRAMS: FROM GENESIS OF SPACE TECHNOLOGIES TO MAJOR SPACE PROGRAMS AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY by GAURAV BHOLA B.S. University of Central Florida, 1998 A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida Summer Term 2009 Major Professor: Roger Handberg © 2009 Gaurav Bhola ii ABSTRACT The Indian and Chinese space programs have evolved into technologically advanced vehicles of national prestige and international competition for developed nations. The programs continue to evolve with impetus that India and China will have the same space capabilities as the United States with in the coming years. -
Only Six Chinese Human Spaceflight Missions
Fact Sheet Updated April 29, 2021 CHINA’S HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT PROGRAM: BACKGROUND AND LIST OF CREWED AND AUTOMATED LAUNCHES China's human spaceflight program, Project 921, officially began in 1992. The program is proceeding at a measured pace. The most recent crewed launch, Shenzhou-11 in October 2016, was the 11th flight in the series, but only the sixth to carry a crew. Shenzhou Spacecraft: Shenzhou 1-4 were automated tests of the spacecraft. Shenzhou-8 was an automated test of rendezvous and docking procedures with the Tiangong-1 space station. The others (5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11) carried crews of one, two or three people and were launched in 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2016 respectively (see list below) Space Stations: Tiangong-1, China's first space station, was launched in September 2011. It hosted the automated Shenzhou-8 in 2011 and two three-person crews: Shenzhou-9 in 2012 and Shenzhou-10 in 2013. It made an uncontrolled reentry at 8:16 pm April 1, 2018 EDT (00:16 April 2 UTC; 8:16 am April 2 Beijing Time) over the southern Pacific Ocean. Tiangong-1 was a small 8.5 metric ton (MT) module. As first space stations go, it was rather modest -- just less than half the mass of the world's first space station, the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1. Launched in 1971, Salyut 1 had a mass of about 18.6 MT. The first U.S. space station, Skylab, launched in 1973, had a mass of about 77 MT. Today's International Space Station (ISS), a partnership among the United States, Russia, Japan, Europe, and Canada, has a mass of about 400 MT and has been permanently occupied by 2-6 person crews rotating on 4-6 month missions since November 2000. -
Hong Kong Edition | China Daily Hong Kong
6 | Friday, June 25, 2021 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY HONG KONG Top Chinese aerospace scientists join a media session during their trip to Hong Kong on Thursday. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Stoking dreams of space Six top Chinese aerospace scientists led a delegation that continued its five-day tour of Hong Kong on Thursday to inspire young minds with personal tales of space adventures. They spoke of the work behind China’s scientific and technological breakthroughs, from the recent Mars probe to the BeiDou satellite system. Primary school students steal the media spotlight after hearing a lecture by Zhang He, executive director of the Chang’e 4 lunar probe project, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Thursday. EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY BeiDou’s role in Hong Kong Patriotism comes people’s daily lives youngsters aspiring naturally to me. I owe is as important as a to work in science my position today beacon in space. It’s should set their sights as chief designer no less crucial than on the scientific of China’s Long water, electricity and technological March rockets to the or the internet. The frontiers while Communist Party of technology is also striving to meet the China. Without the closely linked to nation’s needs and Party, the cowherd infrastructure on serve the well-being boy wouldn’t be here national security.” of the people.” today.” Xie Jun, deputy chief designer of Qi Faren, first chief designer of Long Lehao, chief designer of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite China’s Shenzhou spacecraft China’s Long March rocket series System and chief designer of BeiDou’s third-phase satellite The aerospace The lunar soil samples PolyU’s participation delegation brought collected during the in China’s space rare opportunities country’s 2020 moon missions has opened for Hong Kong to landing mission will up more room for have a glimpse of our be on display for advancement for country’s aerospace the first time in the researchers, and technology. -
The Great Game in Space China’S Evolving ASAT Weapons Programs and Their Implications for Future U.S
The Great Game in Space China’s Evolving ASAT Weapons Programs and Their Implications for Future U.S. Strategy Ian Easton The Project 2049 Institute seeks If there is a great power war in this century, it will not begin to guide decision makers toward with the sound of explosions on the ground and in the sky, but a more secure Asia by the rather with the bursting of kinetic energy and the flashing of century’s mid-point. The laser light in the silence of outer space. China is engaged in an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons drive that has profound organization fills a gap in the implications for future U.S. military strategy in the Pacific. This public policy realm through Chinese ASAT build-up, notable for its assertive testing regime forward-looking, region-specific and unexpectedly rapid development as well as its broad scale, research on alternative security has already triggered a cascade of events in terms of U.S. and policy solutions. Its strategic recalibration and weapons acquisition plans. The interdisciplinary approach draws notion that the U.S. could be caught off-guard in a “space on rigorous analysis of Pearl Harbor” and quickly reduced from an information-age socioeconomic, governance, military juggernaut into a disadvantaged industrial-age power in any conflict with China is being taken very seriously military, environmental, by U.S. war planners. As a result, while China’s already technological and political impressive ASAT program continues to mature and expand, trends, and input from key the U.S. is evolving its own counter-ASAT deterrent as well as players in the region, with an eye its next generation space technology to meet the challenge, toward educating the public and and this is leading to a “great game” style competition in informing policy debate. -
From the Sun to the Earth: August 25, 2018 Geomagnetic Storm Effects
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-2019-165 Preprint. Discussion started: 10 January 2020 c Author(s) 2020. CC BY 4.0 License. From the Sun to the Earth: August 25, 2018 geomagnetic storm effects Mirko Piersanti1, Paola De Michelis2, Dario Del Moro3, Roberta Tozzi2, Michael Pezzopane2, Giuseppe Consolini4, Maria Federica Marcucci4, Monica Laurenza4, Simone Di Matteo5, Alessio Pignalberi2, Virgilio Quattrociocchi4,6, and Piero Diego4 1INFN - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy. 2Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy. 3University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy. 4INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy. 5Catholic University of America at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA 6Dpt. of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy Correspondence: Mirko Piersanti ([email protected]) Abstract. On August 25, 2018 the interplanetary counterpart of the August 20, 2018 Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) hit the Earth, giving rise to a strong G3 geomagnetic storm. We present a description of the whole sequence of events from the Sun to the ground as well as a detailed analysis of the observed effects on the Earth’s environment by using a multi instrumental approach. We studied the ICME propagation in the interplanetary space up to the analysis of its effects in the magnetosphere, 5 ionosphere and at ground. To accomplish this task, we used ground and space collected data, including data from CSES (China Seismo Electric Satellite), launched on February 11, 2018. We found a direct connection between the ICME impact point onto the magnetopause and the pattern of the Earth’s polar electrojects. -
Design Version 11.Pdf
2 3 © LIAMA 4 5 6 7 Chinasat 中星 Gaofen 高分 Date de lancement 1er mai Nom du satellite Chinasat 11 (« satellite chinois ») Date de lancement 26 Avril Lanceur LM3B/Ew Nom du satellite Gaofen 1 (« haute définition ») Lanceur Longue marche 2D Centre de lancement Xichang Centre de lancement Jiuquan Type de satellite et mission Satellite de télécommunications Orbite géostationnaire Type de satellite et mission Observation de la Terre Orbite basse héliosynchrone Masse 5100 kg Masse 1266 kg Durée de vie nominale Cette famille est possédée par la China Satellite Communication Corporation. 11 satellites ont été lancés : Chinasat 7 (18/08/96), 22 (26/01/00), 20 Durée de vie nominale 5 ans (15/11/03), 22A (13/09/06), 6B (05/07/07), 9 (09/06/08), 20A (25/11/10), 1A (19/09/11), 2A (26/05/12) et 12 (27/11/12). Détail sur la famille du satellite Premier du genre. D’autres satellites de télédétection devraient suivre jusqu’en 2020. Remarques Utilise la plateforme DFH-4 Remarques Il devrait permettre d’améliorer le rendement agricole, la gestion de risques climatiques, la protection de l’environnement, de même que le développement scientifique. Un aspect important du système est sa capacité d’acquérir des données en temps réel 24h/24 7jours/7. Le lancement a été effectué en même temps que celui d’un satellite équatorien. TUPAC KATARI Kuaizhou 快舟 Date de lancement 25 septembre Date de lancement 20 décembre Nom du satellite Kuaizhou-1 (« vaisseau rapide ») Nom du satellite Túpac Katari 1 Lanceur Kuaizhou Lanceur LM3B/E Centre de lancement Jiuquan Centre de lancement Xichang Masse 400 kg Type de satellite et mission Satellite de télécommunication Orbite géostationnaire Durée de vie nominale Non-connue Masse 5200 kg Type de satellite et mission Satellite de télédétection, Orbite basse héliosynchrone. -
The Annual Compendium of Commercial Space Transportation: 2017
Federal Aviation Administration The Annual Compendium of Commercial Space Transportation: 2017 January 2017 Annual Compendium of Commercial Space Transportation: 2017 i Contents About the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA AST) licenses and regulates U.S. commercial space launch and reentry activity, as well as the operation of non-federal launch and reentry sites, as authorized by Executive Order 12465 and Title 51 United States Code, Subtitle V, Chapter 509 (formerly the Commercial Space Launch Act). FAA AST’s mission is to ensure public health and safety and the safety of property while protecting the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States during commercial launch and reentry operations. In addition, FAA AST is directed to encourage, facilitate, and promote commercial space launches and reentries. Additional information concerning commercial space transportation can be found on FAA AST’s website: http://www.faa.gov/go/ast Cover art: Phil Smith, The Tauri Group (2017) Publication produced for FAA AST by The Tauri Group under contract. NOTICE Use of trade names or names of manufacturers in this document does not constitute an official endorsement of such products or manufacturers, either expressed or implied, by the Federal Aviation Administration. ii Annual Compendium of Commercial Space Transportation: 2017 GENERAL CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction 5 Launch Vehicles 9 Launch and Reentry Sites 21 Payloads 35 2016 Launch Events 39 2017 Annual Commercial Space Transportation Forecast 45 Space Transportation Law and Policy 83 Appendices 89 Orbital Launch Vehicle Fact Sheets 100 iii Contents DETAILED CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . -
China Missile Chronology
China Missile Chronology Last update: June 2012 2012 18 May 2012 The Department of Defense releases the 2012 “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China” report. The report highlights that the PLA Air force is modernizing its ground‐based air defense forces with conventional medium‐range ballistic missiles, which can “conduct precision strikes against land targets and naval ships, including aircraft carriers, operating far from China’s shores beyond the first island chain.” According to the Department of Defense’s report, China will acquire DF‐31A intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and enhanced, silo‐based DF‐5 (CSS‐4) ICMBs by 2015. To date, China is the third country that has developed a stealth combat aircraft, after the U.S. and Russia. J‐20 is expected conduct military missions by 2018. It will be equipped with “air‐to‐air missiles, air‐to‐surface missiles, anti‐radiation missiles, laser‐guided bombs and drop bombs.”J‐20 stealth fighter is a distinguished example of Chinese military modernization. – Office of Secretary of Defense, “Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2012,” distributed by U.S. Department of Defense, May 2012, www.defense.gov; Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, David Helvey, “Press Briefing on 2012 DOD Report to Congress on ‘Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China,’” distributed by U.S. Department of Defense, 18 May 2012, www.defense.gov; “Chengdu J‐20 Multirole Stealth Fighter Aircraft, China,” Airforce‐Technology, www.airforce‐technology.com. 15 April 2012 North Korea shows off a potential new ICBM in a military parade. -
Joint IAGA IASPEI Symposia J1 Earth and Planetary Core Structure and Evolution from Observations and Modelling Conveners
Joint IAGA IASPEI Symposia J1 Earth and planetary core structure and evolution from observations and modelling Conveners: Christopher Davies ([email protected]) Swarandeep Sahoo ([email protected]) Kimberly Moore ([email protected]) Christine Thomas ([email protected]) Recent advances in the theory and observation of planetary cores is providing profound insight into these remote and enigmatic regions. The Juno and Cassini missions have revealed the properties of Jupiter's magnetic and gravity fields in unprecedented detail, while results from forthcoming missions such as BepiColombo and InSight promise a step change in our knowledge of the interior structure and dynamics of terrestrial bodies within our solar system. Complementary theoretical developments have advanced our understanding of nucleation and crystallization of solids within planetary cores and how these processes influence the generation of global magnetic fields over geological timescales. Numerical simulations of the dynamo process are pushing towards the extreme conditions of rapidly rotating magnetic turbulence that are thought to characterize many planetary cores, promising new insights into the field generation process and the origin of observed magnetic secular variation. On Earth, novel seismic data processing techniques are being combined with vast datasets to illuminate core-mantle interactions and anomalous structures in the liquid and solid cores, while mineral physics calculations and experiments are now capable of estimating transport properties at the extreme pressure-temperature conditions of the core-mantle boundary. Observations of Earth's magnetic field magnitude and its secular variation have been used to infer various physical processes such as core flow patterns, inner core growth, thermal and compositional evolution of the core, and their fundamental origin.