Practice Space and satellite - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) Which of the following diagram represents the most accurate part of geostationary satellite in space?
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Q-2) Methane is present in the atmosphere of
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Q-3) Selene-1, the lunar orbiter mission belongs to which one of the following?
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Q-4) Which one of the following is not a space satellite?
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Q-5) Recently which country successfully tested Long March-5 carrier which is the largest space launch vehicle in the world
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China successfully tested the power system (engines) of its stated to be the largest space launch vehicle viz. Long March-5 carrier. This power system will be used in China’s ambitious Chang’s e-5 lunar mission of 2017.
Q-6) The First Satellite of India sent to space, was
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Q-7) A geostationary satellite has a period of
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Q-8) List of few satellites manufactured by ISRO is given below along with the date of their launch. Which two of the following satellites failed to reach the orbit?Satellite Launch Date - GSAT-2 - 8th May, 2003
- GSAT-4 - 15th April, 2010
- GSAT-5P - 25th December, 2010
- GSAT-12 - 15th July, 2011
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Q-9) Which one of the following is a spacecraft?
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Q-10) NASA’s ‘Cassini’ spacecraft is on mission for which planet?
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Q-11) Sriharikota Island lies near
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Q-12) Which is the correct chronological order of the following space programmes?- APPLE
- IGMD
- STEP
- SITE
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Q-13) Consider the following statements.- Vigyan Rail is a Science Exhibition on wheels organized by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
- Vigyan Prasar is an autonomous body under the ministry of human resources development.
- The educational satellite of ISRO (EDUSAT) was launched in 2004 from French Guiana.
Which of the above statement is correct?
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Q-14) India entered space age by launching
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Q-15) According to NASA, the evidence for the presence of life on Mars found till today include
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Q-16) The Phobos Grunt was:
- Mars probe mission of Russia.
- Carrying Yinghua-1, first Mars probe of China.
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Orbital tracking reports suggest Russia’s failed Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, fell back to Earth on Sunday, to be destroyed over the Pacific. Yinghuo-1 was a Chinese Mars exploration space probe, intended to be the first Chinese spacecraft to explore Mars.
It was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 8 November 2011, along with the Russian Fobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft, which was intended to visit Mars’ moon Phobos.
Q-17) ISRO’s Master Control Facility is at Hasan, which is located
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Q-18) NASA’s Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus?
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Q-19) An artificial satellite can be tracked very precisely from the Earth by using
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Q-20) Which of the following is not used as rocket propellant?
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