{"id":131516,"date":"2026-11-01T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T05:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=131516"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:08:34","slug":"biosentinel-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/biosentinel-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"BioSentinel Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>BioSentinel Mission Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the BioSentinel probe flew past the Moon with yeast to measure deep-space radiation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About BioSentinel Mission<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>six-unit (6U) CubeSat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> launched on November 16, 2022.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was developed by the <\/span><b>NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the first biological CubeSat developed to travel <\/span><b>beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was selected as one of the secondary payloads \u2013 and the <\/span><b>sole biological experiment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 to have the rare opportunity to catch a ride to <\/span><b>deep space on<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/artemis-1\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Artemis I<\/a>,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Objectives<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To develop the <\/span><b>capability to support biological organisms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in deep interplanetary space, and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <\/span><b>characterize the deep space radiation environment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and its effects on biological organisms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Components<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is composed of two sections, one containing the scientific payloads, and a spacecraft bus equipped with solar panel arrays, batteries, micropropulsion system, star tracker navigation system, transponder, antennas, and command and data handling systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two payloads are the microfluidic-based <\/span><b>BioSensor instrument and a radiation detector.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BioSensor instrument <\/span><b>carried the budding yeast S. cerevisiae<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to assay biological responses to accumulated doses of deep space radiation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/us-news\/nasas-biosentinel-probe-flew-past-the-moon-with-yeast-to-measure-deep-space-radiation-the-cells-failed-to-grow-likely-expiring-before-launch-101793175949479.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BioSentinel Mission is NASA\u2019s first biological CubeSat to travel beyond low Earth orbit, launched aboard Artemis I to study deep-space conditions. 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