{"id":18896,"date":"2024-01-03T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18896"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:27:32","slug":"karman-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/karman-line\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Karman Line?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Karman Line<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Located at\u00a0100 km (62 miles) above sea level, it is an\u00a0imaginary line that demarcates the\u00a0earth\u2019s atmosphere from space.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0was established in the 1960s by a record-keeping body called the\u00a0F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique Internationale (FAI).<\/li>\n<li>It was named after aerospace pioneer Theodore von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n.<\/li>\n<li>Though\u00a0not all scientists and spacefarers accept it (for example, the Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, and the U.S. military place the line between outer space and the atmosphere at 80 km (50 miles) above the Earth\u2019s surface) ,\u00a0a majority of countries and space organisations recognise\u00a0this boundary between earthsky and space.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is based on physical reality in the sense that it\u00a0roughly marks the altitude where traditional aircraft can no longer effectively fly.<\/li>\n<li>Anything traveling above the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line needs a propulsion system that doesn\u2019t rely on lift generated by Earth\u2019s atmosphere\u2014the air is simply too thin that high up.<\/li>\n<li>In other words, the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line is\u00a0where the physical laws governing a craft\u2019s ability to fly shift.<\/li>\n<li>Anyone who crosses this\u00a0line\u00a0qualifies as an astronaut.<\/li>\n<li>Why do we need a K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line?\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a01967 Outer Space Treaty\u00a0says that\u00a0space should be accessible to all countries and can be freely and scientifically investigated.<\/li>\n<li>Defining a legal boundary of what and where space\u00a0can help avoid disputes and keep track of space activities and human space travel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique Internationale (FAI)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a non-governmental and non-profit making international organisation with the basic aim of furthering aeronautical and astronautical activities worldwide, ratifying world and continental records and coordinating the organisation of international competitions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/defence-the-crucial-role-of-the-krmn-line-in-space-defense-strategies-3352829\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The crucial role of the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line in space defense strategies<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karman Line located at 100 km (62 miles) above sea level, it is an imaginary line that demarcates the earth\u2019s atmosphere from space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18896","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}