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2022

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
India signed a new Space Situational Awareness arrangement with which nation?
A
Germany
B
US
C
France
D
Australia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ensuring that nothing goes out of sight, Digantara, a space industry start-up is launching India’s first-ever commercial Space Situational Awareness (SSA) observatory. It is put up in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.

Detailed explanation-2: -Space Situational Awareness (SSA) refers to the knowledge of the space environment, including location and function of space objects and space weather phenomena. SSA is generally understood as covering three main areas: Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) of man-made objects.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Space Safety Programme, formerly the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme, is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) initiative to monitor hazards from space, determine their risk, make this data available to the appropriate authorities and where possible, mitigate the threat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Recognising the need for dedicated efforts to tackle the emerging challenges of operating in an exceedingly crowded and contested space domain, Directorate of Space Situational Awareness and Management (DSSAM) has been established at ISRO.

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