80+ satellites launch in one go!!!

ISRO: Indian Space Research Organization

It's only 6 months and ISRO is again going to set a world record, actually they are going to break their own world record which they set earlier in this year in June. They launched 20 satellites successfully in orbit, creating a buzz in the space community.

According to Jitendra Singh, Minister of state in PMO(Prime Minister Organization) in India, ISRO will launch 83 satellites, 80 of them being foreign, in one go in January next year. Israel, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Switzerland and the US, entrusted ISRO to launch their 80 satellites weighing 500 kg.

Three Indian satellites are namely Cartosat-2 series weighing 730 kg as primary payload, INS-1A and INS-1B, total weighing 30 kg. It will be first of it's kind mission in ISRO space history. To keep yourself updated on this mission of ISRO, keep following us.

Picture of the Day

Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble

About The Picture:- Why is there a bridge between these two spiral galaxies? Made of gas and stars, the bridge provides strong evidence that these two immense star systems have passed close to each other and experienced violent tides induced by mutual gravity. Known together as Arp 240 but individually as NGC 5257 and NGC 5258, computer modelling and the ages of star clusters indicate that the two galaxies completed a first passage near each other only about 250 million years ago. Gravitational tides not only pulled away matter, they compress gas and so caused star formation in both galaxies and the unusual bridge. Galactic mergers are thought to be common, with Arp 240 representing a snapshot of a brief stage in this inevitable process. The Arp 240 pair are about 300 million light-years distant and can be seen with a small telescope toward the constellation of Virgo. Repeated close passages should ultimately result in a merger and with the emergence of a single combined galaxy.

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