What is India’s plan to have its own space station and how will it benefit our space programme?
MODEL ANSWERS
ISRO is planning to have a separate space station. It will not be a part of International Space Station. Space station is going to be very small. ISRO will be launching a small module and that will be used for carrying out microgravity experiments,”.
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting crew members, designed to remain in space for an extended period of time and for other spacecraft to dock.
Currently, there is only one fully functional space station in the Earth’s lower orbit, the International Space Station and astronauts conduct different experiments in it.
The International Space Station is a partnership between European countries represented by European Space Agency, the United States (NASA), Japan (JAXA), Canada (CSA) and Russia (Roscosmos). It is the world’s largest international cooperative programme in science and technology.
BENEFITS OF SPACE STATION
- Commercializing low-Earth orbit.
- Supporting worldwide water purification efforts.
- Developing eye surgery with space station
- Preventing bone loss and fighting osteoporosis.
- Monitoring natural disasters from
- Improving indoor air quality.
- Better research opportunity in field of medical sciences as certain bacteria react differently in spaceflight.
- Improving eye surgery with space hardware.