{"id":29537,"date":"2025-01-19T09:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T03:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29537"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:22:35","slug":"scot-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/scot-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SCOT Mission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About SCOT Mission:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking) is Digantara\u2019s<\/strong> (an <strong>Indian space startup)inaugural mission<\/strong> dedicated to <strong>space surveillance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the <strong>world&#8217;s first commercial Space Situational Awareness (SSA) satellites<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>launched aboard SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-12 mission.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>SCOT is <strong>built to track Resident Space Objects (RSOs).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is purpose-built to monitor smaller RSOs, deliver higher revisit rates, and provide better tracking accuracy\u2014filling a gap left by current systems.<\/li>\n<li>SCOT will be <strong>deployed in a sun-synchronous orbit<\/strong>, allowing it to t<strong>rack objects in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) <\/strong>with more efficiency than existing sensors, which are restricted by fields of view (FoV), weather conditions, and geographic limitations.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike these traditional systems, SCOT will ensure surveillance of objects as small as 5 cm orbiting the Earth to ensure safer space operations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Backed by Aditya Birla Ventures and SIDBI<\/strong>, it aims to <strong>support national security and space operations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Points to Remember:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alongside Digantara, two other Indian space startups<\/strong> have <strong>provided their satellites on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-12 rocket <\/strong>that lifted off from Vandenberg, California, US.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bengaluru-based Pixxel deployed<\/strong> the <strong>first three satellites of its Firefly constellation<\/strong>, <strong>alongside ELEVATION-<\/strong>1, a satellite for US-based Almagest Space Corporation, which was wholly <strong>designed and developed by Hyderabad-based XDLINX Spacelabs<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is a space camera?<\/h3>\n<p>Optical payloads or cameras on board satellites play a crucial role in Earth observation space missions. These camera systems are equipped with advanced imaging sensors and lenses that enable them to capture detailed images of our planet from space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmindia.gov.in\/en\/news_updates\/pm-lauds-indian-space-startup-digantara-at-the-success-of-mission-scot\/?comment=disable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PM lauds Indian space startup Digantara at the success of Mission SCOT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking) is Digantara\u2019s (an Indian space startup) inaugural mission dedicated to space surveillance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29537","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\/29537","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=29537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}