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Question : 41
Consider the following statements:
- India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on 19 December 2014 successfully tested an indigenously built 1000 kg glide bomb.
- The bomb had successfully hit a target 200 km away in the Bay of Bengal off the Odisha coast.
a) 2 only
b) Both1 and 2
c) 1 only
d) None of the above
Answer »Answer: (c)
The bomb had successfully hit a target 100 km away in the Bay of Bengal off the Odisha coast.
Question : 42 [SSC CGL 2016]
Sunita Williams is a
a) Missile scientist
b) Astro physicist
c) Nuclear scientist
d) Astronaut
Answer »Answer: (d)
Sunita Williamsis an American astronaut and United States Navy officer of Indian-Slovenian descent. She holds the records for total spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes).
Question : 43 [SSC Tax Asst 2004]
Which of the following is not true for Geostationary Satellite?
a) Its angular speed is equal to that of earth about its own axis
b) It revolves from west to east over the equator
c) It is fixed in space
d) Its time period is 24 hrs
Answer »Answer: (c)
A geosynchronous satellite is a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, with an orbital period the same as the Earth’s rotation period. Such a satellite returns to the same position in the sky after each sidereal day, and over the course of a day traces out a path in the sky that is typically some form of the analemma.
A geostationary orbit, or Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), is a circular orbit 35,786 kilometres above the Earth’s equator and following the direction of the Earth’s rotation.
An object in such an orbit has an orbital period equal to the Earth’s rotational period (one sidereal day) and thus appears motionless, at a fixed position in the sky, to ground observers.
Question : 44
Which of the following nuclear power plants (planned or active) are correctly matched with the state where they are located?
- Kakrapar Gujarat
- Gorakhpur Rajasthan
- Mithivirdi Maharashtra
a) 1 only
b) 1 and 2 only
c) 2 only
d) 1 and 3 only
Answer »Answer: (a)
Gorakhpur nuclear power plant has been proposed to be constructed at Fatehabad (Haryana), but has met with continuous protest from the farmers. Recently, Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change has given coastal regulatory zone approval to Mithivirdi Nuclear Power Plant, Bhavnagar (Gujarat).
Question : 45 [FCI Asst Grade-II 2012]
The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is located at
a) Trivandrum
b) Bangalore
c) Trombay
d) Sriharikota
Answer »Answer: (a)
The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre is a major space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), focusing on rocket and space vehicles for India’s satellite programme. It is located in Thiruvananthapuram, in the Indian state of Kerala.
The centre had its beginnings as the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in 1962. It was renamed in honour of Dr Vikram Sarabhai, the father of the Indian space program. The Vikram Sarabhai Space Center is one of the main Research & Development establishments within ISRO.
VSSC is an entirely indigenous facility working on the development of sounding rockets; Rohini and Menaka launchers; ASLV, PSLV GSLV and the GSLV Mk III.
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