space & satellite MCQ section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

a) Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) - Satellite programme

b) Falcon - Under-sea cable system

c) Atlantis - Space station

d) Discovery - Space shuttle

Question : 2

Kalpana-I is the new name given to one of the following.

a) Insat-1A

b) Metsat

c) Agni-III

d) Insat-2B

Question : 3

1. Higgs-Boson is called as God’s particle
2. It is named after English physicist Peter Higgs and Indian physicist J. C. Bose
3. It is based on Standard model

a) 1, 2 and 3

b) 1 and 3

c) 1 and 2

d) 3 only

Question : 4

Apple was launched from

a) Kourou (French Guiana)

b) Sriharikota (India)

c) Cape Canaveral (U.S.A.)

d) Baikanoor (Russia)

Question : 5

NASA’s Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus?

a) Halley’s Comet

b) Hale-Bopp

c) Temple-1

d) Hyakutake

Question : 6

Assertion (A):
India’s telecommunication has been linked to a satellite.
Reason (R): India is preparing for starwar.

a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

c) (A) is false, but (R) is true

d) (A) is true, but (R) is false