NASA - DART MISSION Flashcards
Who is the administrator of NASA?
Bill Nelson
Full Form?
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)
What is the name of the asteroid for whom this is made?
Dimorphos
Whhich is the first Kinetic Impactor Method of planetary defence?
DART
Weight of DART spacecraft
600kg
?? gridded ion thruster system provides a combination of performance and spacecraft integration capabilities that make it uniquely suited for deep space robotic missions.
NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster–Commercial (NEXT-C)
The spacecraft carries a high-resolution imager called
Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical Navigation (DRACO)
DART will also carry a small satellite or CubeSat named
LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids)
expected to get image of impact & impact crater formed after collision
?? 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
Greased Lighting–10 (GL–10)
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?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Under which act is NASA established?
the National Aeronautics and Space Act 1958
HQ of NASA?
Washington, DC, USA
Which sattelite carried the first animal to go to space?
Sputnik II carrying Dog Laika
Who siigned the National Aeronautics and Space Act?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which was the first international human spaceflight?
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
carried out jointly by the United States & the Soviet Union in July 1975
which is an Earth Science satellite mission that collects information on our water systems?
Aqua
NASA is extensively studying the role of air pollution in this climate-sensitive region as part of which field campaign?
Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS)
It is the largest airborne experiment ever
Which programme give us the first female moonwalker?
Artemis Lunar Program
aims to put astronauts on the lunar surface in 2024
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?
Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment (ATTREX)
Which is a program dedicated to monitoring the complex interactions that affect the globe using NASA satellites and data systems?
Aura - Understanding and Protecting the Air We Breathe
Which mission seeks to measure the precipitation of relativistic electrons from the radiation belts during two multi-balloon campaigns, operated in the southern hemisphere?
BARREL (Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses- 2013 and 2014)
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?
CALIPSO (The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation)
* launched on 28/4/2006
* with cloud profiling radar system on the CloudSat satellite.
Which mission to Saturn is one of the most ambitious efforts in planetary space exploration ever mounted?
Cassini-Huygens Operation
* NASA,
* the European Space Agency (ESA)
* Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
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?
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
LaunchedBy : Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999
named in honor of Indian-American Nobel Laureate, Subrahmnyn Chndrasekar
Which was a joint project between the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA?
Clementine Operation
Which is a lidar remote-sensing instrument that measured atmospheric aerosols and clouds from the International Space Station (ISS)?
Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) Operation
Which is a NASA astrophysics spacecraft that targets the hot and diffuse nebulae at about a million degrees temperature?
Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS)
Which was designed to investigate how energy from the Sun is absorbed and re-radiated by the Earth?
Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)
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 ?
Hubble Space Telescope
* Launched: 1990
* is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble
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Which is the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice ever flown?
IceBridge Mission
Which is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever put into space?
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS is built with the cooperation of scientists from five international space agencies::::
- NASA of the US,
- Roscosmos of Russia,
- JAXA of Japan,
- Canadian Space Agency,
- the European Space Agency.
Which is the most complex international scientific and engineering project in history and the largest structure humans have ever put into space?
International Space Station (ISS)
Which telescope is the result of an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency?
James Webb Space Telescope
was launched in December 2021
successor to Hubble Telescope
Which was the first spacecraft to visit the solar system’s most photogenic gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn.?
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
Which is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth?
Voyager 1
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?
Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx)
would be launched in 2024
