NASA - DART MISSION

Question 1

Who is the administrator of NASA?

Answer 1

Bill Nelson

Question 2

Full Form?

Answer 2

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

Question 3

What is the name of the asteroid for whom this is made?

Answer 3

Dimorphos

Question 4

Whhich is the first Kinetic Impactor Method of planetary defence?

Answer 4

DART

Question 5

Weight of DART spacecraft

Answer 5

600kg

Question 6

?? gridded ion thruster system provides a combination of performance and spacecraft integration capabilities that make it uniquely suited for deep space robotic missions.

Answer 6

NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster–Commercial (NEXT-C)

Question 7

The spacecraft carries a high-resolution imager called

Answer 7

Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical Navigation (DRACO)

Question 8

DART will also carry a small satellite or CubeSat named

Answer 8

LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids)

expected to get image of impact & impact crater formed after collision

Question 9

?? 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

Answer 9

Greased Lighting–10 (GL–10)

Question 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?

Answer 10

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Question 11

Under which act is NASA established?

Answer 11

the National Aeronautics and Space Act 1958

Question 12

HQ of NASA?

Answer 12

Washington, DC, USA

Question 13

Which sattelite carried the first animal to go to space?

Answer 13

Sputnik II carrying Dog Laika

Question 14

Who siigned the National Aeronautics and Space Act?

Answer 14

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 15

Which was the first international human spaceflight?

Answer 15

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

carried out jointly by the United States & the Soviet Union in July 1975

Question 16

which is an Earth Science satellite mission that collects information on our water systems?

Answer 16

Aqua

Question 17

NASA is extensively studying the role of air pollution in this climate-sensitive region as part of which field campaign?

Answer 17

Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS)

It is the largest airborne experiment ever

Question 18

Which programme give us the first female moonwalker?

Answer 18

Artemis Lunar Program

aims to put astronauts on the lunar surface in 2024

Question 19

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?

Answer 19

Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment (ATTREX)

Question 20

Which is a program dedicated to monitoring the complex interactions that affect the globe using NASA satellites and data systems?

Answer 20

Aura - Understanding and Protecting the Air We Breathe

Question 21

Which mission seeks to measure the precipitation of relativistic electrons from the radiation belts during two multi-balloon campaigns, operated in the southern hemisphere?

Answer 21

BARREL (Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses- 2013 and 2014)

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

CALIPSO (The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation)
* launched on 28/4/2006
* with cloud profiling radar system on the CloudSat satellite.

Question 23

Which mission to Saturn is one of the most ambitious efforts in planetary space exploration ever mounted?

Answer 23

Cassini-Huygens Operation
* NASA,
* the European Space Agency (ESA)
* Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

Chandra X-Ray Observatory
LaunchedBy : Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999

named in honor of Indian-American Nobel Laureate, Subrahmnyn Chndrasekar

Question 25

Which was a joint project between the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA?

Answer 25

Clementine Operation

Question 26

Which is a lidar remote-sensing instrument that measured atmospheric aerosols and clouds from the International Space Station (ISS)?

Answer 26

Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) Operation

Question 27

Which is a NASA astrophysics spacecraft that targets the hot and diffuse nebulae at about a million degrees temperature?

Answer 27

Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS)

Question 28

Which was designed to investigate how energy from the Sun is absorbed and re-radiated by the Earth?

Answer 28

Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)

Question 29

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 ?

Answer 29

Hubble Space Telescope * Launched: 1990 * is named after the astronomer **Edwin Hubble** *

Question 30

Which is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown?

Answer 30

IceBridge Mission

Question 31

Which is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever put into space?

Answer 31

International Space Station (ISS)

Question 32

ISS is built with the cooperation of scientists from five international space agencies::::

Answer 32

* NASA of the US, * Roscosmos of Russia, * JAXA of Japan, * Canadian Space Agency, * the European Space Agency.

Question 33

Which is the most complex international scientific and engineering project in history and the largest structure humans have ever put into space?

Answer 33

International Space Station (ISS)

Question 34

Which telescope is the result of an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency?

Answer 34

James Webb Space Telescope | was launched in December 2021 ## Footnote successor to Hubble Telescope

Question 35

Which was the first spacecraft to visit the solar system's most photogenic gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn.?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Which is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth?

Answer 36

Voyager 1

Question 37

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?

Answer 37

Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) | would be launched in 2024