Weekly - Gaganyaan’s test flight completed successfully and more
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Gaganyaan’s test flight completed successfully
ISRO’s upcoming Gaganyaan manned mission (India’s mission to send humans to space) successfully completed one of its test flights recently. The main goal of the test flight was to test the mission’s Crew Escape System. The escape system is used in times of emergency when the mission is aborted after launch. In such instances, the crew module will separate from the rocket and parachutes will be deployed and the crew will safely touch down in the sea.
Scientists detect rare 1 ms long radio burst
Scientists across the globe recently detected a powerful and rare radio burst recently. The burst lasted only for 1 millisecond. These types of bursts are called FRBs or fast radio bursts. What made this particular FRB so rare was that it was the oldest FRB ever detected and it came from farther away than any other burst of its kind. The New York Post recently mentioned -
The mysterious “fast radio burst” — identified as FRB 20220610A — lasted only a millisecond, but released the amount of energy our sun emits in three decades.
It is beleived that this radio burst was caused by the merging of a group of galaxies.
Scientists find Ceres has more organic matter than thought before
Scientists recently discovered that the dwarf planet Ceres (located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter) may have more organic matter on it than previously thought. The planet was confirmed to have organic matter (matter containing large amounts of carbon. eg: plants, animals fossils etc) on it in 2017, but new research shows that it is more widespread than thought earlier. This organic matter could even be one of the fundamental building blocks of life.
