Weekly - ISRO completes its 100th launch and more
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ISRO completes its 100th launch
Last week, ISRO conducted its 100th launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The GSLV-F15 rocket successfully placed the NVS-02 communication satellite in geostationary orbit (about 36,000 km above Earth), a historic feat for ISRO.
Sunita Williams sets women’s spacewalk record
Last week, after completing her ninth spacewalk, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams logged 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalk in total, breaking the former spacewalk record for a woman, previously set by Peggy Whitson. The spacewalk was conducted to swab certain areas of the space station's exterior to study microbes that may have escaped from the ISS and survived in the harsh conditions of space.
OSIRIS-REx samples building blocks of life
In 2023 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from the asteroid Benu 7 years after its launch. It was the first US mission to collect samples from an asteroid. Recent analysis of the samples shows that they contain a large number of organic compounds that are used to make proteins - the basic building blocks of life.
