CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Teams of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States of America and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will inspect the excavation being carried out at an archaeological site in Haryana’s Fatehabad district. It is said to be the oldest civilisation in the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -On Sept. 30, 2014, NASA and ISRO signed a partnership to collaborate on and launch NISAR. The mission is targeted to launch in 2024. NASA is providing the mission’s L-band synthetic aperture radar, a high-rate communication subsystem for science data, GPS receivers, a solid-state recorder and payload data subsystem.

Detailed explanation-3: -Also, NASA is located in the US, while ISRO has its headquarters in Bangalore in India.

Detailed explanation-4: -NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the full form of ISRO is the Indian Space Research Organisation.