{"id":85428,"date":"2020-01-05T15:08:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T09:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12745"},"modified":"2020-01-05T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T09:38:41","slug":"isro-signs-pact-with-astrophysics-institute-to-set-up-optical-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-signs-pact-with-astrophysics-institute-to-set-up-optical-telescopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Isro signs pact with astrophysics institute to set up optical Telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Indian Space Research Organization has signed a pact with Indian Institute of Astrophysics to establish an optical telescope under Project 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>Project NETRA is an early warning system in space to detect debris and other hazards to Indian satellites.<\/li><li>Under the project,the ISRO plans to put up many observational facilities: connected radars, telescopes; data processing units and a control centre.<\/li><li>They 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>What is the need of Project NETRA?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India has 15 communication satellites active in the geostationary orbit, 13 remote-sensing satellites active in low-earth orbit (2,000 km radius) and eight navigation satellites in medium-earth orbit.<\/li><li>Hence,the project plays an important role in protecting Indian satellites from space debris and other hazards.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Importance of the Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The project would make India a part of international efforts towards tracking, warning about and mitigating space debris.<\/li><li>The project will also give India its own capability in space situational awareness (SSA) like the other space powers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About DRDO\u2019s NETRA:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Apart from ISRO, Defence Research Development Organisation(DRDO) also operates NETRA (Network Traffic Analysis).It is a software network used to analyse internet traffic.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It is used by Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Intelligence Bureau (IB) and other intelligence agencies of Government of India.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Indian Space Research Organization has signed a pact with Indian Institute of Astrophysics to establish an optical telescope under Project NETRA. Facts: About Project NETRA: Project NETRA is an early warning system in space to detect debris and other hazards to Indian satellites. Under the project,the ISRO plans to put up many observational facilities:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-signs-pact-with-astrophysics-institute-to-set-up-optical-telescopes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Isro signs pact with astrophysics institute to set up optical Telescopes<\/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-85428","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":1700777455,"cached_date":1704619395},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85428","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=85428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}