NASA' Voyager mission and achievements in 2020,NASA's Satellite, U.S. spacecraft name change

 NASA's VOYAGER 2 SPACECRAFT 

On 8th February 2020 NASA has managed to fix its Voyager-2 probe remotely, almost 11.5 billion miles away from its location.

The probe has reportedly been acting in an unexpected manner as it field to carry out a maneuver as planned on January 25. Moreover, the glitch in the probe was detected by the spacecraft's fault detection software which was relayed to NASA.

Voyager 2 is the only probe ever to study Neptune and Uranus during planetary flybys.

It is the second man-made object to leave our planet.

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited all four gas giant planets --- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - and discovered 16 moons, as well as phenomena like Neptune's mysteriously transient great dark spot, the cracks in Europa's ice shell, and ring features at every planet.

NASA's Artemis: First human base camp on moon's south pole by 2024

On 7th of April 2020 National aeronautics and space administration (NASA) unveiled its plan to setup 'Artemis; the first human base camp on moon's South pole by 2024.

the program AIIMS to land first woman and next man on the moon by 2024.

The plan is to make a one to two-month stay at the south pole of the moon to learn more about it and the universe.

The bass camp on moon will need infrastructure for power; waste disposal and communications, besides radiation shielding and a landing pad.

The Artemis program is carried out by NASA along with European space agency (ESA), the Japan aerospace exploration agency (JAXA), Canadian space agency (CSA) and the Australian space agency (ASA).

U.S. SPACECRAFT NAMED AFTER ASTRONAUT KALPANA CHAWLA

On September 2020 an American commercial cargo spacecraft bound for the international space station has been named after NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla, the first India born women to enter space, for her ki contributions to human spaceflight.

Northrop Grumman, an American global aerospace and defence technology company, announced that it's next Cygnus capsule will be named The "S.S. Klapana Chawla", in memory of the mission specialist who died with her 6 crewmates aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 2003.

Chawla was selected in honour of her prominent place in history as the first woman of Indian descent to go to space.

The SS Kalpana Chawla capsule is scheduled to launch on the NG-14 mission Atop a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from the mid Atlantic regional spaceport (MARS) at NASA's Wallops Flight facility in Virginia on september 29.

For the NG-14 mission, the Cygnus spacecraft will deliver approximately 3629 kg of cargo to the space station.