India GSLV MkIII-D2 successfully launches GSAT-29
India’s GSAT-29 communication satellite was successfully launched by the second developmental flight of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III (GSLV MkIII-D2) today from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota.
The first successful mission of GSLV Mark III was an experimental suborbital flight in 2014. Subsequently, GSLV Mark III-D1 launched GSAT-19, a high throughput communication satellite, with a lift-off mass of 3150 kg, into GTO on June 5, 2017.
GSLV Mk III Launches till Date
| S.No. | Title | Launch Date | Launcher Type | Payload |
| 3 | GSLV Mk III-D2 / GSAT-29 Mission | Nov 14, 2018 | GSLV-MK-III | GSAT-29 |
| 2 | GSLV Mk III-D1/GSAT-19 Mission | Jun 05, 2017 | GSLV-MK-III | GSAT-19 |
| 1 | LVM-3/CARE Mission | Dec 18, 2014 | GSLV-MK-III | Crew module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment (CARE) |
Important Note:
GSLV Mk III is a 3-stage heavy lift launch vehicle developed by ISRO.
- Two boosters with solid propellant constitute the first stage
- The core with liquid propellant forms the second stage and the cryogenic engine completes the final stage.
GSAT-29 is a Multiband, multi-beam communication satellite, intended to serve as test bed for several new and critical technologies.
The Q/V-Band communication payload onboard is intended to demonstrate the future high throughput satellite system technologies
Its Ku-band and Ka-band payloads are configured to cater to the communication requirements of users including those from remote areas especially from Jammu & Kashmir and North-Eastern regions of India.
Geo High Resolution Camera will carry out high resolution imaging.
Declaring GSLV MKIII operational, Chandrayaan-2 and Gaganyaan missions will be launched by this heavy-lifter.
The success of GSLV MkIII-D2 marks an important milestone in Indian space programme towards achieving self-reliance in launching heavier satellites. The success of this flight also signifies the completion of the experimental phase of GSLV Mark III.
Source: PIB+ISRO
The Earth Saver-Rule Book on Climate
Climate negotiators from around the world have gathered in Poland to renew their efforts towards finalising a global action plan to prevent adverse impacts of climate change. The annual meeting, informally called COP24 (24th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is being organised in Katowice, an important city in southern Poland’s coal belt. It is being held amidst a series of fresh warnings that current measures announced by countries, some already under way and others to be implemented in the coming years, were hugely inadequate for achieving the agreed objective of keeping the rise in global temperatures within 2°C from pre-industrial times.
The Main Agenda
The main task on the hands of negotiators gathered in Katowice would be to finalise the Book of Rules for the implementation of the Paris Agreement that was clinched at a similar meeting in 2015, and came into effect the following year after the required number of countries had ratified it. For the last two years, negotiators have been working on formulating the rules, procedures, guidelines, and institutional mechanisms through which the provisions of the Paris Agreement would be implemented. These include such things as agreeing on accounting standards to measure emissions, processes for monitoring, reporting and verification (commonly referred to as MRV in climate negotiation circles) of actions being taken by individual countries, mechanisms to raise financial resources and ensure the flow of funds for climate projects, and institutions to facilitate the diffusion of appropriate technologies to countries and regions that need them.
At the COP22 meeting in Marrakech, countries had set themselves a 2018 deadline for the completion of the Rulebook. Though extra rounds of meetings have been held this year in the run-up to the Katowice summit, the countries are still far away from finalising the “Rulebook”. That is because most of the issues to be dealt with and agreed upon, notably those relating to finance, technology, and MRV, are highly contentious, and the negotiators face an uphill task in their attempt to wrap it up in the next two weeks.
There is a growing noise about the need to aim for a 1.5°C target instead of 2°C.
A recent special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the pathways to the 1.5° target is an important item on the agenda in Katowice.
The 1.5°C debate
The Paris Agreement, while seeking to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C from pre-industrial times, also promises to keep Pursuing efforts to attain the 1.5° target. This was done to accommodate the concerns of smaller countries, mainly island nations that face the greatest threat from climate change. At the Paris meeting in 2015, the countries had also called upon the IPCC, a global body of scientists that does periodic reviews of scientific literature to make projections about the Earth’s future climate, to prepare a special report on the feasibility of the 1.5°C target.
Challenges
Recently Emissions Gap report, released by the UN Environment Program, has said if the countries do not substantially enhance their actions before 2030, the 1.5° target would get out of reach. Called for “Unprecedented and Urgent action”, it has reported that total annual global greenhouse gas emissions in 2017, at 53.5 billion tonnes carbon dioxide-equivalent, was 0.7 billion tonnes higher than the previous year.
- This is the first time in four years that the total emission has shown an increase.
- The total emissions in 2030 need to be at least 25% below the 2017 level to continue on the 2% pathway, and at least 55% lower if 1.5° target has to be achieved.
- Recently the World Meteorological Organization reported that global average surface temperatures in 2018 were all set to be the fourth highest ever recorded. The 20 warmest years have all been in the last 22 years, with the top four being the last four years. The report also said that data for the first 10 months of the year showed that global average temperatures were already nearly 1°C above pre-industrial levels.
Osiris-Rex mission
After couple of years chase, NASA spacecraft arrived on December 3 at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years
Important Notes
The carbon-rich asteroid Bennu could hold evidence dating back to the beginning of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
As such, it is an astronomical time capsule.
NASA has brought back comet dust and solar wind particles before, but never asteroid samples.
About Osiris-Rex
The $800 million Osiris-Rex mission began with a 2016 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Both the spacecraft and asteroid’s names come from Egyptian mythology. Osiris is the god of the afterlife, while Bennu represents the heron and creation.
Osiris-Rex is actually a NASA acronym for origins, spectral interpretation, resource identification, security-regolith explorer.
Osiris-Rex aims to collect at least 60g of dust and gravel.
The spacecraft won’t land, but rather use a 10-foot (3-metre) mechanical arm in 2020 to momentarily touchdown and vacuum up particles.
The sample container would break loose and head toward Earth in 2021.
The collection parachuting down to Utah would represent the biggest cosmic haul since the Apollo astronaut’s hand-delivered moon rocks to Earth in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Japan’s second asteroid mission
A Japanese spacecraft, meanwhile, has been hanging out at another near-Earth asteroid since June, also for samples.
It is Japan’s second asteroid mission. This latest rock is named Ryugu and about double the size of Bennu.
Japan has also managed to return some tiny particles in 2010 from its first asteroid mission, also named Hayab
Potentially hazardous asteroids
Both Bennu and Ryugu are considered potentially hazardous asteroids.
That means they could smack Earth years from now. At worst, Bennu would carve out a crater during a projected close call 150 years from now.
First manned mission Soyuz to ISS since October failure
A Soyuz rocket carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts took off from Kazakhstan and reached orbit, in the first manned mission since a failed launch in October.
Important Notes
The Russian space agency Roscomos announced that the capsule was successfully launched into orbit.
It was the first manned launch for the Soviet-era Soyuz since October 11, when a rocket carrying Russia’s Aleksey Ovchinin and U.S. astronaut Nick Hague failed just minutes after blast-off, forcing the pair to make an emergency landing.
They escaped unharmed but the launch failed — the first such incident in Russia’s post-Soviet history — raised concerns about the state of the Soyuz programme.
The Soyuz is the only means of reaching the ISS since the U.S. retired the space shuttle in 2011.
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