Practice Science and tech - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

According to the Indian government, 27 Indian satellites are currently operational. Out of these, 11 are communication satellites, 12 are earth observation satellites, 3 are navigational satellites and 1 is MOM.

The international covenant — which provides a framework for channelling liability and providing speedy compensation in the event of a nuclear accident — was signed at the International Atomic Energy Agency offices in Vienna by Dinkar Khullar, India’s Ambassador to Austria. The IAEA is the “depository” of the CSC, which has so far been signed by 14 countries and ratified by four, including the U.S.

ARussian Capsule Bion-M craft that was filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other animals returned from a month’s long mission in Orbit on 19 May 2013.

In gel electrophoresis agarose extracted from sea weed used as gel agarose, made of 0.7% gel show good resolution of large DNA molecules and 2% gel will show good resolution of small fragments of DNA.

MESSENGER (an acronym of MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) is a robotic NASA spacecraft orbiting the planet Mercury, the first spacecraft ever to do so.

The 485-kilogram spacecraft was launched aboard a Delta II rocket in August 2004 to study Mercury’s chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. It became the second mission after 1975’s Mariner 10 to reach Mercury successfully when it made a flyby in January 2008, followed by a second flyby in October 2008, and a third flyby in September 2009.

The name “Brahmos” has been derived from the names of two rivers namely the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.

Tech Mahindra launched ‘Tap N Pay’ contactless digital payment wallet MoboMoney for the Indian masses.

Mars Curiosity Rover has captured an image of a flower like object embedded on the rocks of Mars. It has also photographed a snake-like rock formation on the Martian Rocks. The picture was captured by the microscope Mars Hand Lens Imager held by the robotic arm of Rover on 19 December 2012.

A comet is a small, icy celestial body that orbits around the sun. It is made up of a nucleus (solid, frozen ice, gas and dust), a gaseous coma (water vapour, CO₂, and other gases) and a long tail (made of dust and ionized gases).

The tail develops when the comet is near the Sun. The tail can be up to 250 million km long and is most of what we see. Comets are only visible when they’re near the sun in their highly eccentric orbits.

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The Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank (MTCC) housed at the Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh. Established in 1986, it is funded jointly by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India.

A fast reactor needs no moderator to slow down the neutrons at all, taking advantage of the fast neutrons producing a greater number of neutrons per fission than slow neutrons. For this reason ordinary liquid water, being a moderator as well as a neutron absorber, is an undesirable primary coolant for fast reactors.

The Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) is a National Research Institute for space and allied sciences, supported mainly by the Department of Space, Government of India.

This research laboratory has ongoing research programmes in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Sciences and Aeronomy, Earth Sciences, Solar System studies and Theoretical Physics. It manages the Udaipur Solar Observatory and is located in Ahmedabad.

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since the 1950s. The bomber carries up to 32,000 kg of weapons.

Due to the late 1950s-era threat of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) that could threaten high-altitude aircraft, seen in the practice in the 1960 U-2 incident, the intended use of B-52 was changed to serve as a low-level penetration bomber during a foreseen attack upon the Soviet Union, as terrain masking provided an effective method of avoiding radar and thus the threat of the SAMs.

Although never intended for the low-level role, the B-52’s flexibility allowed it to outlast several intended successors as the nature of aerial warfare changed.

The Supreme Court has rejected the Bayer’s appeal to cancel Compulsory License granted by the Indian government to Natco Pharmaceuticals to produce a generic medicine of Nexavar.

Trishul is the name of a short range surface-to-air missile developed by India as a part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program. It has a range of 9 km and is fitted with a 5.5 kg warhead.

As the first man to escape Earth’s gravitation field and achieve orbit, Yuri Gagarin holds the title of first human being in space. On 12 April 1961 in his craft Vostok 1, Gagarin completed a single orbit of the Earth.

Performed at an altitude of 187 3/4 miles (302 kilometres), the orbital rotation took 108 minutes at 18,000 miles an hour. For this, he was nominated a Hero of the Soviet Union.