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10 facts about space technology

Author: Ashika Jain
by Ashika Jain
Posted: Aug 13, 2019

10 FACTS ABOUT SPACE TECHNOLOGYSpace technology is a technology that is developed by space science.Space technology includes the following spacecraft, satellites, space stations, and support infrastructure, equipment, and procedures. Space is a novel environment that attempts the work in it and it also requires new tools and techniques.The following are the different tools such as satellites, space shuttles, and telescopes which used to explore the Satellites take photos of certain objects in depending on the mission. Obviously, space shuttles contain humans that are sent on a mission to explore a certain object in space.1. Space is completely silent.

Space is silent because there is no medium or any type of way through which sound is exchanged.

Space is completely silent, Astronauts use radios to stay in communication while they were in space, since the waves of radio can still be sent and received.

2.The hottest planet in our solar system.

Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system which has an average surface temperature of around 450° C..Interestingly, venus is not the closest planet to the Sun.

But the mercury is closer to it but because Mercury has no atmosphere to regulate temperature it has a very large temperature fluctuation.

3. There may be life on Mars.

From all the planets in our solar system (except the Earth), Mars is one of the most likely to be hospitable to our life. In 1986, NASA found what they thought may be fossils of microscopic living things in a rock recovered from Mars.

4. Nobody knows how many stars are in space.

The size of space makes it impossible to accurately predict the number how many stars are there. Right now, scientists and astronomers use the number of stars within our galaxy, There are various ways to estimate. The number is between 200 to 400 billion stars and there are estimated to be billions of galaxies so the stars in space really are completely uncountable.

5. Halley's Comet won’t past orbit Earth again until 2061.

It was discovered in 1705 by Edmond Halley, the famous comet was last seen in 1986 and it was only seen once every 75 to 76 years.

6.A full NASA space suit costs $12,000,000.

While the entire suit costs of it are cool $12m, and 70% of that cost is for the backpack and control module.

7. Neutron stars can spin 600 times per second.

Neutron stars are the densest and tiniest stars in the whole known universe and although that they only have a radius of about 10 km, they may have a mass of a few times that ofthe sun. They can rotate that up to 60 times per second after they are born from a core-collapse supernova star explosion and have been known to spin as fast as 600-712 times per second because of their physics.

8. The footprints on the Moon will be there for 100 million years.

The Moon has no atmosphere, which means there is no wind to erode on the surface and no water to wash the footprints away.

This means that the footprints of the Apollo astronauts, along with the spacecraft prints are rover-prints and discarded material, which will be there for millions of years.

9. One day on Venus is longer than one year.

Venus has a slow axis rotation which takes 243 Earth days to complete the 1-day rotation. The orbit of Venus around the Sun is 225 Earth days, making a year on Venus 18 days less than that of a day on Venus.

10. There is floating water in the space.

Astronomers have found that a massive water vapor cloud that holds 140 trillion times the mass of water in the Earth’s oceans and somewhere around the 10 billions of light-years away for making it the largest discovery of water ever found.

Conclusion

Tools such as satellites, space shuttles, and telescopes are used to explore the space of space technology. Satellites take photos of certain objects in the space depending on the mission. Obviously, the space shuttles contain the humans that are sent on a mission to explore a certain object in space. Telescopes are used from Earth in space technology.

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Author: Ashika Jain

Ashika Jain

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