NASA-ISRO satellite at stak
- Space scientists in India and America are on tenterhooks as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump meet for their first bilateral in Washington on Monday. At stake is the world’s most expensive earth-imaging satellite till date being jointly made by NASA and ISRO.
- The satellite aims to study global environmental change and natural disasters. However, climate change seems to be a red rag for the current American administration.
- Mr. Trump calls climate change a hoax created by China by adhering to his views that “the concept of global warming was created by the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive”. On the other hand, Mr. Modi has penned a pictorial book — Convenient Action: Continuity for Change — that compiles his actions and beliefs on climate change.
- Recently, the U.S. walked out of the Paris Climate Change Treaty while India continues to honour its commitments. Can a middle ground be found or can the jointly-made satellite escape President Trump’s anti-climate change gaze?
Cause
of worry
- This is what is worrying scientists at Pasadena, a suburb of Los Angeles, where at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory work has begun in full earnest to realise the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite called NISAR.
- Scientists at the Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad are also anxious as they go about fabricating unique components for the massive satellite.
Army
has a rethink on its Sahayak system
- · The Sahayaks are ordinary soldiers who are engaged as menservants in the residences of commissioned officers for assisting his officer, maintaining his uniform and military kit and acting as his "buddy" in times of combat.
- The Army is now actively considering recruiting civilian staff in peace stations to do away with the colonial era Sahayak system, in the wake of rising cases of jawans coming out openly against it. A top Army official, however, said the Sahayaks or buddy system — whereby a solider is attached to officers — will continue to be deployed in key bases and field areas as they have defined military duties.
- In the recent months, a number of videos had surfaced where some jawans were seen voicing their anger over the Sahayak system with some even alleging that they are treated as servants by the officers whom they are attached to.
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