{"id":85346,"date":"2019-09-27T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10448"},"modified":"2019-09-27T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:47:32","slug":"project-netra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/project-netra\/","title":{"rendered":"Project NETRA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has initiated the \u2018Project NETRA.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Project NETRA:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NETRA stands for Network for Space Object Tracking and Analysis.<\/li><li>It is an early warning system in space to detect space debris and to safeguard India\u2019s functional satellites in low-earth orbits.<\/li><li>Under NETRA,ISRO plans to put up many observational facilities such as (a)connected radars (b)telescopes (c)data processing units and a (d)Space Situational Awareness Control Centre.<\/li><li>These facilities can spot, track and catalogue objects as small as 10 cm, up to a range of 3,400 km and equal to a space orbit of around 2,000 km.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Significance of NETRA:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This will improve India&#8217;s space situational awareness and allow it to become self-dependent.<\/li><li>This will ensure that India will no longer have to depend on data from the North America Aerospace Defence Command(NORAD).<\/li><li>NORAD is an initiative of the U.S. and Canada that shares selective space debris data with many countries.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Space situational and awareness centre:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ISRO has set up the Space Situational Awareness Control Centre in Bengaluru.<\/li><li>The control centre hosts a range of activities related to the protection of Indian space assets from (a)inactive satellites (b)pieces of orbiting objects (c)near earth asteroids and (d)adverse space weather conditions.<\/li><li>It also assimilates the tracking data of inactive satellites from indigenous observation facilities and generates useful information from bare observations through analysis.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Space debris:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Space debris are artificial material that is orbiting Earth but is no longer functional.<\/li><li>They consists of dead satellites, spent rocket motors, nuts and bolts etc.Space debris is a threat to active satellites and spaceships as they pose risk of collisions.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has initiated the \u2018Project NETRA. Facts: About Project NETRA: NETRA stands for Network for Space Object Tracking and Analysis. It is an early warning system in space to detect space debris and to safeguard India\u2019s functional satellites in low-earth orbits. Under NETRA,ISRO plans to put up many observational facilities&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/project-netra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project NETRA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[405,2671],"class_list":["post-85346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-isro","tag-project-netra","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704957691},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}