{"id":16773,"date":"2023-03-03T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=16773"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:53:19","slug":"spacex","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/spacex","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SpaceX <\/span><b>launched four astronauts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the <\/span><b>International Space Station for NASA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including the first person from the Arab world going up for an extended month- long stay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16775 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3.3-mar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3.3-mar.png 490w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3.3-mar-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3.3-mar-360x241.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Image Source: Reuters<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>About SpaceX:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a <\/span><b>private aerospace manufacturer <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and space transport services company headquartered in California, US.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>founded in 2002<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Elon Musk with the goal of <\/span><b>creating the technologies to reduce space transportation <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">costs and enable colonisation of Mars.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SpaceX has <\/span><b>developed the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, both designed to be reusable, thus reducing the cost of launch.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also became the <\/span><b>first privately funded company<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to successfully launch, orbit and recover spacecraft (Dragon) in 2010.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was also the first private company to send a spacecraft to ISS in 2012.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>International Space Station (ISS):<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISS is a<\/span><b> space station,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or a habitable artificial satellite, in Low Earth Orbit (approximately 250 miles above Earth).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ISS programme is a <\/span><b>joint project<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between five participating space agencies:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>NASA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (United States)<\/span><b>, Roscosmos <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Russia),<\/span><b> JAXA <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Japan),<\/span><b> ESA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Europe), and<\/span><b> CSA <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Canada).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The station is divided into two sections,<\/span><b> the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>United States Orbital Segment (USOS)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is shared by many nations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISS is the <\/span><b>ninth space station <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to be inhabited by crews, following the Soviet and later Russian Salyut, Almaz, and Mir stations as well as Skylab from the US.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>News Source: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/spacex-launches-us-russia-uae-astronauts-to-space-station\/article66572352.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>The Hindu<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0\u00a0 SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA including the first person from the Arab world going up for an extended month- long stay. Image Source: Reuters About SpaceX: SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) is a private aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in California, US. 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