BASIC countries in making Paris agreement
Nations Framework for Climate Change (UNFCC) Conference of Parties (COP-25) meet to be held later in the year from 2nd to 13th December, the BASIC countries held its 28th Ministerial meeting on Climate Change from 14th to 16th August in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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#BASIC #UNFCC #CBDRRC #UNSG #IPCC #ICAO #IMO #PrakashJavadekar #XIEZhenhua

What is the UN’s stand on Kashmir?
On August 16, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a “closed consultation” meeting on the situation in Kashmir. On August 5, India had ended the special status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) under Article 370 and Article 35A, carving it into two Union Territories: J&K and Ladakh.
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#UN #Kashmir #UNSC #UNCIP #Pakistan #India #Ladakh

Konkan Exercise in English Channel
Indian Navy stealth frigate INS Tarkash joined the UK Royal Navy's HMS Destroyer in the English Channel for their annual Konkan Exercise this week. Konkan is a long-running exercise designed to test the ability of the two Commonwealth navies to operate side-by-side during war and other crunch scenarios.
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#KonkanExercise #EnglishChannel #INS #IndianNavy #HMS #Destroyer

China launches rocket for commercial use
A Chinese government space agency successfully launched on 17 August 2019 its first rocket meant for commercial use, state television CCTV reported, as firms in the country compete to join a commercial satellite boom.
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#China #CASC #SmartDragon #rocket #satellites #CAS #TechnologyCorp

Two galaxies colliding
NASA and European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope has just captured images of two luminescent galaxies catalogued as UGC 2369. The telescope was able to capture mutual gravitational attraction between both the galaxies. Interaction between galaxies is not an uncommon event, however, two similarly sized ones merging is one of a kind.
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#galaxies #ESA #NASA #UGC2369 #MilkyWay #HubbleSpaceTelescope

CWM Index 2.0
To supplement the efforts of Jal Shakti Ministry, NITI Aayog has prepared the second Round of Composite Water Management Index (CWMI 2.0).The Report was launched on 23 August 2019 by NITI Aayog. CWMI 2.0 ranks various states for the reference year 2017-18 as against the base year 2016-17.
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#CWM #Index2.0 #NITIAayog #JalShaktiMinistry #Gujarat

ESA’s ExoMars programme
NASA has planned to launch its Mars 2020 rover next year sometime in July, however, it will not be the sole expedition to the red-coloured planet. There is another mission called the ExoMars programme, which is a joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian space agency Roscosmos, that is expected to launch sometime in between July 26-August 13 next year.
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#NASA #ExoMars #planet #Roscosmos #ESA #RosalindFranklin

Oxytocin issue refers to a larger bench
The Supreme Court referred to a larger Bench the issue of banning manufacture of life-saving drug Oxytocin by private companies. The drug is used to induce labour in pregnant women and stall postpartum bleeding, a leading cause of maternal deaths.
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#Oxytocin #BGP #manufacture #SupremeCourt #Karnataka

Ocean energy now a renewable source
Ocean energy has been included in renewable energy to give a further boost to ocean energy in India. Power Minister R K Singh approved the proposal.
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#Ocean #India #RPO #NPV #OTEC #RKSingh #stakeholders

IOA blames NADA for suspension
The Indian Olympic Association on 23 August 2019 lashed out at the National Anti-Doping Agency for the suspension of the country’s only WADA-accredited laboratory, saying NADA’s “mistakes” have jeopardised the anti-doping programme in New Delhi.
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#IOA #NADA #WADA #ISL #ISL #LabEG #IOC #UNESCO

Vikram undergoes de-orbit manoeuvre
Chandrayaan 2’s moon lander Vikram underwent the first of two ‘de-orbiting’ manoeuvres on 3 September 2019 morning. The four-second operation performed from ISRO’s Bengaluru control centre has slightly trimmed the lander’s orbit towards its destination.
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#Vikram #Chandrayaan2 #OHRC #DEM #ISRO #Forging #orbit

Pakistan skips UN summit in India
A 12-day UN meet on combating desertification, land degradation and drought opened at Greater Noida on 2 September 2019 with India taking over presidency of the Conference of Parties (COP) from China for next two years while its neighbour Pakistan skipped it despite being invited by the global body.
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#Pakistan #COP #UNCCD #ISRO #Pakistani #India

Caused of mass extinctions found
Around 420 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction event, known as Lau/Kozlowskii extinction, wiped around 23 per cent of all marine animals from the Earth in the late prehistoric Silurian Period.
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#FSU #Kozlowskii #Earth #mass #extinctions

Apache AH-64E inducted in IAF
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has formally inducted eight of the 22 AH-64E Apache helicopters at the Air Force Station, Pathankot. The Boeing AH-64E Apache helicopters, which are expected to improve battlefield attack capabilities for the IAF, were inducted by Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa.
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#IAF #AH64E #Pathankot #AirForceStation #BSDhanoa #helicopters #MoD

CIMON returns to Earth
The Crew Interactive Mobile CompaniON (CIMON), which is the first artificial intelligence (AI)-based astronaut assistance system returned to Earth after spending over a year on the International Space Station (ISS).
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#CIMON #ISS #DLR #ESA #Germany #artificialintelligence #IBM

Mithali Raj retired from T20
Former captain Mithali Raj announced her retirement from the shortest format of the game on 3 September 2019 after having led the Indian women’s cricket team in 32 T20 matches including three World Cups in 2012 (Sri Lanka), 2014 (Bangladesh) and 2016 (India).
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#MithaliRaj #T20 #ECB #Bangladesh #Indianwomen #CricketTeam

First MPC Meet of 2020
The monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India decided to hold policy rates at 5.15 percent on 6 February 2020 and maintained its accommodative stance.
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#MPC #CPI #Q3FY20 #GDP #NSC #ChetanGhate

Panel to examine fiscal, debt situation
The Fifteenth Finance Commission (15th FC) will set up a panel later this month to examine the fiscal and debt situation of the Centre and states and present a road map, on the lines of the erstwhile Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management panel, the Commission’s Chairman N K Singh said on 5 February 2020.
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#NKSingh #15thFC #Article293 #FY21 #FRBM #Budget

MAVEN makes surprising discovery
NASA’s ongoing Mars mission through its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has made surprising discoveries that scientists believe may help understand the disruptive phenomena on Earth.
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#MAVEN #NASA #aircraft #spacecraft #Earth

India slips in International IP Index
India’s slipped to 40th position on the International Intellectual Property (IP) Index, which analyses the IP climate in 53 global economies, this year, according to a report of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center.Last year India was ranked at 36th position out of 50 countries.
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#India #International #IP #GIPC #IPR #France

Draft UN resolution on Libya
A UN resolution that would endorse a plan to restore peace to Libya and condemn the recent increase in violence faced opposition on 5 February 2020 from Russia and South Africa.
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#Libya #resolution #SouthAfrica #UN #British

Astronaut lands back on Earth
Koch touched down on 6 February 2020 on the Kazakh steppe after 328 days in space along with Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency.
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#Astronaut #Earth #NASA #ISS #ESA #Kazakh

The Spiral galaxy NGC 5643
The Hubble Telescope, operated by US’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), has captured a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5643.
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#Spiralgalaxy #NGC5643 #NASA #ESA #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses

Today's Headlines - 12 August 2023
Russia’s Luna-25 mission
GS Paper - 3 (Space Technology)

As the Chandrayaan-3 mission tightens its orbit around the Moon, Russia was launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on 11 August 2023. The Luna-25 mission is scheduled to land on the Moon on 23 August 2023, the same day as Chandrayaan-3’s planned landing.

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Luna-25 was launched from the Vosthochny cosmodrome in the Russian Far East less than a month after Chandrayaan-3 launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
The Russian mission will try to land on the lunar South Pole just like the Indian mission, aiming for a prized destination that may hold significant quantities of ice that could be used to extract oxygen and fuel in the future.
If either of the missions succeeds before the other, it will be the first one to land on the lunar South Pole in human history.
Roscosmos, Russia’s ISRO counterparts said that Luna-25 will practice soft-landing, analyse soil samples and conduct long-term scientific research on the Moon’s surface.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission is carrying an orbiter, a lander and a rover. The lander and rover are carrying many scientific payloads.
This is Russia’s first lunar mission since 1976 when the country was part of the Soviet Union and it will be completed without equipment from the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA ended its cooperation with Roscosmos after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Luna-25 has a mass of 1.8 tons and carries 31 kilograms of scientific equipment, including some that it will use to take rock samples from up to a depth of 15 centimetres to test for the presence of water that could be used to support future crewed missions to the Moon.
The mission was originally scheduled to launch in October 2021 but was marred by many delays.
The Russian mission will take a lot less time to reach the Moon than Chandrayaan-3 because the latter is taking a longer route that takes advantage of the gravities of the Earth and the Moon to use a lot less fuel.
Russia willevacuate villagers from a village near the launch site due to a “one in a million chance” that one of the rocket stages that launches could fall to the Earth there.

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Today's Headlines - 05 September 2023
A sunrace of significant global missions
GS Paper - 3 (Space Technology)

In the wake of the Indian Space Research Organisation's successful launch of its inaugural solar mission, Aditya-L1,, let's embark on a journey through key missions from space agencies worldwide, all dedicated to unravelling the enigmatic secrets of the Sun.
A Sunrace
USA
US: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the US space agency, launched the Parker Solar Probe in August 2018. In December 2021, Parker flew through the Sun's upper atmosphere, the corona, and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. This was the first time ever that a spacecraft touched the Sun, according to NASA.
In February 2020, NASA joined hands with the European Space Agency (ESA) and launched The Solar Orbiter to collect data to find out how the Sun created and controlled the constantly changing space environment throughout the solar system.
Other active solar missions by NASA are Advanced Composition Explorer launched in August, 1997; Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory in October, 2006; Solar Dynamics Observatory in February, 2010; and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph launched in June, 2013.
Also, in December, 1995, NASA, ESA and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) jointly launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
Japan
JAXA, Japan's space agency, launched its first solar observation satellite, Hinotori (ASTRO-A), in 1981. The objective was to study solar flares using hard X-rays, according to JAXA. JAXA's other solar exploratory missions are Yohkoh (SOLAR-A) launched in 1991; SOHO (along with NASA and ESA) in 1995; and Transient Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), along with NASA, in 1998.
In 2006, Hinode (SOLAR-B) was launched, which was the successor to Yohkoh (SOLAR-A), the orbiting solar observatory. Japan launched it in collaboration with the US and the UK. The objective of Hinode, an observatory satellite, is to study the impact of the Sun on the Earth.
Yohkoh's objective was to observe solar flares and the solar corona. It was the first satellite to track almost an entire 11-year solar activity cycle.
Europe
In October, 1990, the ESA launched Ulysses to study the environment of space above and below the poles of the Sun, giving scientists information about the variable effect the Sun has on the space surrounding it. Other than solar missions launched in collaboration with NASA and the JAXA, the ESA launched Proba-2 in October, 2001.
Proba-2 is the second of the Proba series, building on nearly eight years of successful Proba-1 experience, even as Proba-1 was not a solar exploratory mission. On-board Proba-2 were four experiments, two of them were solar observation experiments.
Proba stands for Project for On-Board Autonomy. Upcoming solar missions of the ESA include Proba-3, scheduled for 2024 and Smile, scheduled for 2025.
China
The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) was successfully launched by the National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in October, 2022. The ASO-S mission is designed to reveal connections among the solar magnetic field, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
Solar flares and CMEs are eruptive solar phenomena, thought to be driven by changes in the Sun's magnetic field.

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