Correct Answer : NASA
Correct Answer : December 24th
NASA has confirmed that the Webb Space Telescope Launch will take place on December 24th, 2021. The launch has been much awaited, as there were previous short delays. The telescope is a massive project that started in 2003 in a form of an international partnership with NASA, European and Canadian space agencies.
Correct Answer : China
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on December 9th, 2021, launched a new X-Ray mission that aims at unlocking the secrets of the black hole and other extreme cosmic objects. NASA’s new X-ray space observatory is one of its kind and is called the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer or IXPE.
Correct Answer : Third quarter of 2022
Chandrayaan-3 mission is likely to be launched during the third quarter of 2022 if normal workflow continues, informed Union Minister of State in the Department of Space Dr Jitendra Singh on December 8, 2021.
Correct Answer : Anil Menon
Nasa-turned-SpaceX flight surgeon, "Anil Menon" is among the 10 latest trainee astronauts who will join the 2021 class of the American space agency as it plans for the first human missions to the moon in more than 50 years. He is born to Indian and Ukrainian parents and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Menon is a lieutenant colonel in the US air force. He was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organisation to support the human system during future missions.
China launched its 3rd Gaofen 11 reconnaissance satellite on November 19, 2021. The Gaofen 11 (03) satellite has an optical resolution comparable to top US spy satellites. It has been launched in addition to China’s set of classified satellites.
Correct Answer : Raja Chari
NASA and SpaceX have launched the "Crew 3" mission on a flight to the International Space Station on November 10, 2021. Crew 3 mission to ISS includes four astronauts including a veteran spacewalker and two younger crewmates chosen to join NASA’s forthcoming lunar missions. The Mission will be led by Indian-origin astronaut Raja Chari.
Raja Chari
Correct Answer : France
France successfully launched a military communication satellite, named Syracuse 4A, into orbit recently from Kourou, in French Guiana. The state-of-the-art satellite was launched on Ariane 5 rocket.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is preparing to launch the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission that is a planetary defense-driven test of technologies to prevent collision of Earth with an asteroid. The mission is scheduled to be launched on November 24, 2021 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
