{"id":112923,"date":"2026-07-13T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=112923"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:23:03","slug":"earendil-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/earendil-1\/","title":{"rendered":"E\u00e4rendil-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>E\u00e4rendil-1 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the U.S.Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized a company named Reflect Orbital to launch and operate a test satellite E\u00e4rendil-1 designed to deploy a large mirror in orbit around the earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About E\u00e4rendil-1<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the first satellite planned by <\/span><b>US startup Reflect Orbital.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its <\/span><b>purpose is to reflect sunlight towards<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> specific spots on <\/span><b>the earth at nighttime.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Working<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>single satellite in a non-geostationary orbit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fit with a \u201cdeployable, highly specular <\/span><b>thin-film reflector\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reflector will be motorised and can be steered to different orientations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is intended to use this technology to extend the usable hours for solar panels and provide <\/span><b>light during \u201ccritical operations\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like emergency or humanitarian missions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Orbital Profile:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The satellite will operate at a <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/low-earth-orbit\/\" target=\"_blank\">LEO<\/a> altitude between 600 kilometers and 650 kilometers.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It makes <\/span><b>clean, abundant energy available on demand<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and that its technology can help alleviate energy concerns, aid with disaster responses, fulfill industrial needs and boost agriculture.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/us-regulator-green-lights-mission-to-launch-giant-mirror-to-orbit\/article71213314.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E\u00e4rendil-1&#8217;s purpose is to reflect sunlight towards specific spots on the earth at nighttime. Read more about E\u00e4rendil-1, Purpose, Working, Significance, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":112894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8665],"class_list":["post-112923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-earendil-1","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112983,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112923\/revisions\/112983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}