Page 58 - article

SNIPPETS

Snippets

K Sivan appointed new India by 2025, in collaboration with space six times. In 1965, Young
ISRO Chairman universities from across the globe. The flew on the first manned Gemini
n e w L a s e r I n t e r f e r o m e t e r mission and commanded another
K Sivan, Director of the Vikram
Gravitational-Wave Observatory the next year. In 1969, he became
Sarabhai Space Centre, will be
the new Chairman of the Indian (LIGO) detector will add to the two the first person to orbit the
already operational in the US. The Moon alone for Apollo 10.
Space Research Organisation
(ISRO). Sivan, who would LIGO detectors discovered the first Young, also drove the Lunar
gravitational waves produced by two Roving Vehicle on the Moon’s
replace current ISRO chief AS
Kiran Kumar, will have a tenure giant merging blackholes last year. The surface during Apollo 16, and is
research won a Nobel Prize in Physics one of only three people to have
of three years.
An alumunus of the Madras this year. flown to the Moon twice. He also
A third LIGO detector will help commanded two Space Shuttle
Institute of Technology and the
Indian Institute of Science, pinpoint the origin of the gravitational flights, including its first launch in
waves that are detected in future. The 1981, and served as the Chief of
Bengaluru, Sivan designed
SITAR, a software that ISRO uses existence of these waves were first the Astronaut Office from 1974-
predicted by Albert Einstein 100 1987.
to simulate the trajectories of the
rockets and track them in real- years ago in his general theory of Crew from US,
relativity.
time. Russia and Japan
Decoding genome of NASA’s flying docks in ISS
telescope to study
HIV variant found in A three-man space crew made up
Saturn’s moon of American, and Japanese
India
NASA, on 1 January 2018, said its astronauts and Russian
A team of scientists from India,
flying observatory Sofia (Stratospheric cosmonaut successfully docked
the UK and Spain, on 9 January
Observatory for Infra-red Astronomy) at the International Space Station
2018, isolated near full genomes
is preparing for its 2018 campaign, to begin a six-month mission on
of HIV virus from a subset of December 19, 2017. The space
which will include, among others,
South Indian patients - a subtype travellers who blasted off from
known as HIV clade C. observations of celestial magnetic Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in
fields, star-forming regions, comets
Because HIV exhibits huge Kazakhstan will now join Russia’s
genetic diversity, the virus and Saturn’s giant moon Titan. This will Alexander Misurkin and NASA
undergoes frequent genomic be the fourth year of full operations for pair Mark Vande Hei and Joe
changes and each new variant Sofia, with observations planned Acaba currently aboard the ISS.
differs in its response to therapy. between February 2018 and January WHO okays Bharat
Examining the entire viral genome 2019.
can, thus, offer new clues for Sofia is a Boeing 747SP jetliner Bio typhoid shot
understanding infection modified to carry a 100-inch diameter Bharat Biotech, on 3 January
dynamics and tracing the telescope. It is a joint project of NASA 2018, received a pre-qualification
evolutionary history of different and the German Aerospace Centre, from the WHO for Typbar Typhoid
strains. For this, researchers DLR. Conjugate Vaccine. This paves the
tweaked the existing method for First shuttle commander way for supplies of the vaccine to
isolating and sequencing the viral US astronaut John UNICEF, Pan-American Health
genome. Young dies Organization (PAHO) and Gavi
Gravitational wave supported countries.
Legendary astronaut John Young, who Typbar TCV is the first typhoid
detector to be built
walked on the moon and flew the first vaccine clinically proven to be
in India by 2025 space shuttle mission, died on January administered to children from 6
A new gravitational wave detector 5, 2018. Young’s career at NASA months of age to adults, and
to measure ripples in the fabric of stretched for 42 years, during which confers long-term protection
space and time is set to be built in he became the first human to fly in against typhoid fever.

March 2018 Competition Wizard 81