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NASA - DART MISSION Flashcards

1
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Who is the administrator of NASA?

A

Bill Nelson

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2
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Full Form?

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Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

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3
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What is the name of the asteroid for whom this is made?

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Dimorphos

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4
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Whhich is the first Kinetic Impactor Method of planetary defence?

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DART

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5
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Weight of DART spacecraft

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600kg

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?? gridded ion thruster system provides a combination of performance and spacecraft integration capabilities that make it uniquely suited for deep space robotic missions.

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NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster–Commercial (NEXT-C)

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The spacecraft carries a high-resolution imager called

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Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical Navigation (DRACO)

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DART will also carry a small satellite or CubeSat named

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LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids)

expected to get image of impact & impact crater formed after collision

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9
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?? is a NASA developed battery-powered plane with 10 engines that can take off and land like a helicopter and fly efficiently like an aircraft

A

Greased Lighting–10 (GL–10)

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Which vis an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research?

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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11
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Under which act is NASA established?

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the National Aeronautics and Space Act 1958

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HQ of NASA?

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Washington, DC, USA

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13
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Which sattelite carried the first animal to go to space?

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Sputnik II carrying Dog Laika

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Who siigned the National Aeronautics and Space Act?

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Which was the first international human spaceflight?

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The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

carried out jointly by the United States & the Soviet Union in July 1975

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16
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which is an Earth Science satellite mission that collects information on our water systems?

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Aqua

17
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NASA is extensively studying the role of air pollution in this climate-sensitive region as part of which field campaign?

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Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS)

It is the largest airborne experiment ever

18
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Which programme give us the first female moonwalker?

A

Artemis Lunar Program

aims to put astronauts on the lunar surface in 2024

19
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Which will perform a series of measurement campaigns using the long-range NASA Global Hawk (GH) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to directly address these problems?

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Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment (ATTREX)

20
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Which is a program dedicated to monitoring the complex interactions that affect the globe using NASA satellites and data systems?

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Aura - Understanding and Protecting the Air We Breathe

21
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Which mission seeks to measure the precipitation of relativistic electrons from the radiation belts during two multi-balloon campaigns, operated in the southern hemisphere?

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BARREL (Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses- 2013 and 2014)

22
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Which satellite provides new insight into the role that clouds and atmospheric aerosols (airborne particles) play in regulating Earth’s weather, climate, and air quality?

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CALIPSO (The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation)
* launched on 28/4/2006
* with cloud profiling radar system on the CloudSat satellite.

23
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Which mission to Saturn is one of the most ambitious efforts in planetary space exploration ever mounted?

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Cassini-Huygens Operation
* NASA,
* the European Space Agency (ESA)
* Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)

24
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Which allows scientists from around the world to obtain X-ray images of exotic environments to help understand the structure and evolution of the universe?

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Chandra X-Ray Observatory
LaunchedBy : Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999

named in honor of Indian-American Nobel Laureate, Subrahmnyn Chndrasekar

25
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Which was a joint project between the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA?

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Clementine Operation

26
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Which is a lidar remote-sensing instrument that measured atmospheric aerosols and clouds from the International Space Station (ISS)?

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Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) Operation

27
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Which is a NASA astrophysics spacecraft that targets the hot and diffuse nebulae at about a million degrees temperature?

A

Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS)

28
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Which was designed to investigate how energy from the Sun is absorbed and re-radiated by the Earth?

A

Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)

29
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Which is the first major optical telescope to be placed in space and has made groundbreaking discoveries in the field of astronomy since its launch ?

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Hubble Space Telescope
* Launched: 1990
* is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble
*

30
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Which is the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice ever flown?

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IceBridge Mission

31
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Which is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever put into space?

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International Space Station (ISS)

32
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ISS is built with the cooperation of scientists from five international space agencies::::

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  • NASA of the US,
  • Roscosmos of Russia,
  • JAXA of Japan,
  • Canadian Space Agency,
  • the European Space Agency.
33
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Which is the most complex international scientific and engineering project in history and the largest structure humans have ever put into space?

A

International Space Station (ISS)

34
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Which telescope is the result of an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency?

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James Webb Space Telescope

was launched in December 2021

successor to Hubble Telescope

35
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Which was the first spacecraft to visit the solar system’s most photogenic gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn.?

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Pioneer
* Pioneer 10 was the first probe to travel through the solar system’s asteroid belt, a field of orbiting rocks between Mars and Jupiter

36
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Which is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth?

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Voyager 1

37
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Which is a planned two-year mission that will survey the sky in optical as well as near-infrared light which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions?

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Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx)

would be launched in 2024

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