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33. CHANDRAYAAN II About Chandrayaan-I:About Chandrayaan-II:Payloads:34. INSAT 3E35. IRNSSAbout Satellite:Architecture:Services:Why substantially less satellites:Progress & Challenges:36. GSAT 1637. GSLV MARK III38. NISAR MISSION (NASA-ISRO SAR MISSION)39. THIRTY METER TELESCOPE (TMT)40. GAIA (SPACECRAFT)Importance Level: General Awareness41. JUICE MISSION42. ORBITING CARBON OBSERVATORY 243.SMAP44. TOPS – TERRESTRIAL OBSERVATION AND PREDICTION SYSTEM45. ILLUSTRISWhy in news?About IllustrisSignificance:46.NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS PARTICLE FOUND IN 2012 IS THE HIGGS BOSONMore infoHiggs BosonParticle Physics:Standard Model of particle physicsHiggs field♤ As particles move through the universe they acquire mass by interacting with the Higgs field.The Hypothesisunstable particle created in fraction of a second after the Big Bang before decaying into smaller99.99% of the speed of light.Why Higgs boson is so illusiveWhat if we find Higgs BosonCurrent Status of Higgs Boson♤ The sigma probabilities for the Higgs hunt in the ATLAS experiment is 2.8 sigma and in the case of CMS experiment 1.9 sigma (where three sigma level of certainty means nearly 99% accurate result).47. VOYAGER-148. CLEANSPACE ONE49. NuSTAR50. JADE RABBIT51. HR 5171A: