The European Space Agency (ESA) has deliberate to launch the worlds first wood satellite. It is going to be launched from New Zealand. It will be launched from a Rocket Lab Electron rocket by the last of 2021. The satellite is the brainchild of Jari Makinen.
The satellite, WISA Woodsat, is a nanosatellite. It is 10cm on every side, length, height, and width.
The sensors of the satellite have been developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and designers have placed the timber in a thermal vacuum chamber to keep it dry.
A very thin aluminium oxide layer has been used to decrease the vapour coming from the wood and to defend it from the erosive outcomes of atomic Oxygen. The non-wooden external parts are made up of aluminium rails.
The Union Minister of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare delivered a speech at the 42nd session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The conference is held every two years. India is a founding member of FAO
Highlights:
The national planning framework developed by India’s FAO in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare of the Government of India adopts a multi sectoral approach.
India has provided technical expertise and assistance in cases of trans-boundary pests, primarily Fall Army Worm and Desert Locust.
The FAO also supported India’s proposal for an International Year of Pulses (2016) and an International Year of (2023).