Starlink

  • Starlink is a network of satellites being built by SpaceX, an aerospace company.
  • It will deliver high speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable.
  • The satellite network operates at 550km above the Earth’s surface in low Earth orbit (LEO), unlike conventional internet satellites that are positioned much higher, at over 35,000km.
  • At end of life, the satellites will utilize their on-board propulsion system to deorbit over the course of a few months.

Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)

  • ANITA instrument is a radio telescope to detect ultra-high energy cosmic-ray neutrinos from a scientific balloon flying over ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now

To get access to detailed content

Already a Member? Login here


Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.

Related Content

Prelims Special