CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -NASA will launch Israel’s first space telescope – the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite, or ULTRASAT – into high-Earth orbit in early 2026, as part of a newly signed partnership between United States’ NASA and Israel’s Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology.

Detailed explanation-2: -Its first satellite, the Ofeq-1 was launched on September 19, 1988, from Palmachim Airbase in Israel. Since the launching of that first satellite, Israel has developed into a significant player in the commercial space arena.

Detailed explanation-3: -NASA’s Webb telescope captures new views of stars, galaxies and the early universe. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has hardly opened its eyes and the universe is new–more mysterious, more beautiful than humanity’s dreams. The largest telescope ever flown launched into deep space on Christmas Day, 2021.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the next big space telescope to launch following the deployment of the latest NASA telescope, which itself was the successor to the still-active Hubble telescope.