CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -“OHSUMI” is Japan’s first satellite.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most recent one, which launched in November 2021, carried the RAISE 2 satellite and eight small rideshare spacecraft to orbit for JAXA’s Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program.

Detailed explanation-3: -Telstar, launched in 1962, was the first active communications satellite: it received microwave signals from ground stations and retransmitted them across vast distances back to Earth. It was the model for all subsequent communications satellites.

Detailed explanation-4: -On 22 December 2021, I-6 F1, the first of our two I-6 satellites, launched from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries onboard its H-IIA Launch Vehicle No.