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Answer: (c)

India’s Nuclear Command Authority is chaired by the Prime Minister.

Answer: (b)

Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile (LRSAM) LRSAM is also called Barak 8 missile in Israel which in Hebrew language means Lightning.

Answer: (c)

Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA), in collaboration with Indian Navy’s Eastern Naval Command, has set up India’s first ship museum in the port city. The ship museum has been set up at Teneti Park abutting the Rama Krishna beach on the lines of 'INS Kursura submarine museum' that was set up by the Indian Navy in August 2002.

Answer: (a)

Project Loon began with a pilot test in June 2013, when thirty balloons were launched from New Zealand’s South Island and beamed Internet to a small group of pilot testers. The pilot test has since expanded to include a greater number of people over a wider area.

Looking ahead, Project Loon will continue to expand the pilot, with the goal of establishing a ring of uninterrupted connectivity at latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere, so that pilot testers in these latitudes can receive continuous service via balloon-powered Internet.

Answer: (a)

The Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, was a 1,035-kilogram (2,280 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus using Synthetic Aperture Radar and measure the planetary gravity.

It was the first interplanetary mission to be launched from the Space Shuttle, the first to use an inertial upper stage booster and was the first spacecraft to test aerobraking as a method for circularizing an orbit. Magellan was the fourth successful, NASA funded mission to Venus and ended an eleven year U.S. interplanetary exploration hiatus.