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25/08/22 10:30 AM IST

Spectrographic Investigation of Nebular Gas (SING) Project

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  • Tension between India and China since May 2020 is worrying Indian astrophysicists involved in an ambitious project to install an India-made spectroscope aboard the developing Chinese space station, Tiangong.
SING Project 
  • The SING project would be the first space-collaboration involving India and China, and primarily deals with sending and positioning a spectrograph, an instrument that splits light into constituent frequencies and wavelengths, to study ultraviolet radiation.
  • This will help analyse the make-up and sources of interstellar gas in the region that swept by the space station as it orbits around the earth.
  • The Chinese T-shaped Tiangong space station, when complete, is expected to be around 20% as massive as the International Space Station, or about 460 tonnes on Earth.
  • The space station consists of three modules, two of which have already been launched in April 2021 and July this year, respectively.
  • The third is expected to be launched this October. It will be only the second such station after the International Space Station in orbit.
  • India and China have been collaborators in the past on research projects such as the Giant Metre Wave Radio Telescope, a Pune-based observatory that’s employed by astrophysicists across the world to study radiation at metre-scale resolutions to observe and analyse stars and galaxies.
Source- The Hindu 

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