NASA announces SUNRISE Mission

Question: Consider the following statements regarding NASA Sunrise Mission:

Question: Consider the following statements regarding NASA Sunrise Mission:
(1) The SUNRISE mission is to study about how sun creates Giant solar particle storms.
(2) The project will launch no earlier than July 1, 2023 at a cost of $62.6 million.
Choose the correct:
(a) Only (1)
(b) Only (2)
(c) Both (1) and (2)
(d) None of the above
Answer: (c)
Related facts:

  • The US space agency, NASA selected the proposed Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SUNRISE) mission to study how the Sun creates and releases Giant Solar Particle Storms.
  • The SUNRISE mission will aid scientists to understand the working of the Solar System.
  • The mission is believed to help protect future astronauts from Solar Storms while going to the Moon or Mars.
  • The mission is led by Justin Kasper at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
  • In March 2020, the Mission was awarded $62.6 million to design, build, and launch the mission.
  • The net launch date of the SUNRISE mission is 1 July 2023.
  • The mission will use a constellation of six solar powered satellites the size of toaster ovens, called CubeSats, to collect data on low-frequency emissions from the sun.
  • Together, these will observe radio images of low- frequency emission from solar activity and create 3D maps to locate the origin place of a solar particle storm on the sun.
  • The mission has come true because of the success of DARPA high – frequency research and Mars cube one (MARCO).
  • The mission is to study sun’s spectrum. This is important as sun’s spectrum cannot be studied from the earth due to the ionosphere.

National Aeronautics and space Administration (NASA):

  • Formed on: 29 July 1958
  • Headquarters: Washington D.C., United States
  • Administrator: Jim Bridenstine
  • Deputy Administrator: James Morhard

Links:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8173197/amp/NASA-announces-new-mission-study-solar-particle-storms-satellites-size-toaster-ovens.html
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/nasa-announced-new-sunrise-mission-to-study-giant-solar-particle-storms-8211131.html/amp