CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Sri Lanka’s first satellite ‘Ravana-1’, designed and developed by two local engineers, was successfully launched into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS) along with two other BIRDS 3 satellites from Japan and Nepal. Raavana-1 is the cube satellite.

Detailed explanation-2: -When was Sri Lanka’s first satellite Raavana 1 launched into space from NASA’s Flight Facility?

Detailed explanation-3: -The Aryabhata spacecraft, named after the famous Indian astronomer, was India’s first satellite; it was completely designed and fabricated in India and launched by a Soviet Kosmos-3M rocket from Kapustin Yar on April 19, 1975.

Detailed explanation-4: -Raavana-1 was the first Sri Lankan satellite.

Detailed explanation-5: -On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I.