GSAT-11: GSAT-11 is ISRO’s heaviest satellite so far that was launched from French Guyana. GSAT-11 is also known by the name Big Bird. It has been indigenously developed by ISRO. It has a weight of 5854 kg. It will provide high data rate connectivity to Indian mainland and islands. It is going to provide a strong push to BharatNet project of India which is part of Digital India Programme to give a push to broadband connectivity in rural India.

OSIRIS-REx: NASA’s first every OSIRIS-REx mission designed to visit asteroid and return sample of its dust back to Earth reached its destination, Bennu, two years after its launch. OSIRIS-REx stands for Origins, Spectral, Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer. It was launched in September 2016.

Bennu: Bennu is near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid about the size of a small mountain in the Apollo groups. It was discover in September 1999 by the LINEAR Project. It orbits close to Earth’s path around the Sun. It is one of the oldest asteroid known to NASA.

Kepler Space Telescope: The scientists have discovered cache over 100 new exoplanets using data from NASA’s Kepler Space telescope or KST. KST is unmanned space observatory launched in the year 2009 by NASA. It was tased with determining how many Earth-like planets occur throughout the Milky Way galaxy.