{"id":53047,"date":"2025-07-02T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=53047"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:33:18","slug":"gosat-gw-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gosat-gw-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"GOSAT-GW Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>GOSAT-GW Satellite Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Japan launched the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GOSAT-GW Satellite from the Tanegashima Space Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About GOSAT-GW Satellite<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (GOSAT-GW) is a Japanese<\/span><b> Earth observation satellite .<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was launched by the <\/span><b>Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is carrying two instruments onboard: the <\/span><b>Total Anthropogenic and Natural emissions mapping SpectrOmeter-3<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (TANSO-3), and the <\/span><b>Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3 (AMSR3).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was launched by<\/span><b> using an H-2A rocket.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The satellite will be in a <\/span><b>sun-synchronous orbit<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at an altitude of 666 km with a repeat cycle of three days.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Objectives of GOSAT-GW Satellite<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitoring atmospheric global-mean concentrations of <\/span><b>greenhouse gasses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (GHGs),<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Verifying national <\/span><b>anthropogenic GHG emissions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> inventories,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Detecting GHG emissions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from large sources, such as megacities and power plants.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/japan-launching-of-gosat-gw-on-50th-and-final-liftoff-of-the-h-2a-rocket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SPACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s GOSAT-GW satellite, launched by JAXA, monitors greenhouse gases and water cycles, verifying emissions and detecting major GHG sources globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":53188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1272,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-53047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-gosat-gw-satellite","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53047","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=53047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}