Today's Questions
23 May 2019
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Today's Editorial (Hindi)
23 May 2019
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Today's Editorial
23 May 2019
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Today's Headlines (Hindi)
23 May 2019
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Today's Headlines
23 May 2019
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'आरआईसैट-2 बी' का सफल प्रक्षेपण
पीएसएलवी-सी46 को उसके 48वें मिशन के साथ 22 मई 2019 पर सुबह साढे पांच बजे श्रीहरिकोटा के सतीश धवन अंतरिक्ष केन्द्र से लॉन्च किया गया। पीएसएलपी46 ने आरआईसैट-2बी को लो अर्थ ऑर्बिट में सफल तौर पर स्थापित किया।
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants-hindi/20262-2-18
#RISAT2B #Pslvc46 #ISRO #ISTRAC #Telemetrytracking


उच्चस्तरीय समिति ने अपनी रिपोर्ट दी
सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के तेल और गैस उपक्रमों के बीच सामंजस्य पैदा करने के लिए कार्ययोजना तैयार करने से जुड़े मुद्दों की जांच करने; कर मामलों और सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के तेल और गैस उपक्रमों द्वारा जीएसटी से लाभ लेने के तरीकों संबंध में सरकार द्वारा गठित उच्च स्तरीय समिति ने नई दिल्ली में पेट्रोलियम और प्राकृतिक गैस तथा कौशल विकास उद्यमिता मंत्री श्री धर्मेन्द्र प्रधान को अपनी रिपोर्ट दी।
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#DharmendraPradhan #Gasenterprises #GST #Dr AnilKakodkar


8वीं भारत- म्यांमार समन्वित गश्ती
8वीं भारत-म्यांमार गश्ती (आईएमसीओआर) के उद्घाटन समारोह में हिस्‍सा लेने के लिए म्यांमार नौसेना के जहाज यूएमएस किंग टेबिन-श्‍वेलएचटी (773) और यूएमएस इनले (ओपीवी-54) 20 मई को पोर्ट ब्लेयर में अंडमान और निकोबार कमान पहुंचे।
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#IMCOR #UMSKingTabin #PortBlair #CMDE #AshutoshRidharkar

RISAT-2B launched
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C46) on 22 May 2019 successfully launched the RISAT-2B satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
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#SDSC #RISAT2B #ISTRAC #SCL #Dr KSivan

Brahmos Air Launched Missile fired
On 22 May 2019, IAF successfully fired the BrahMos air version missile from its frontline Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft. The launch from the aircraft was smooth and the missile followed the desired trajectory before directly hitting the land target.
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#BrahmosAir #MKIfighteraircraft #BrahMosmissile #IndianNavy

Gas layer protecting ocean inside Pluto
An insulating layer of gas beneath Pluto’s icy exterior may be protecting a subsurface ocean from freezing, scientists claim. The team from the Hokkaido University in Japan conducted computer simulations covering a timescale of 4.6 billion years, when the solar system began to form.
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#Pluto #HokkaidoUniversity #Gaslayer #solarsystem

SIMBEX-2019 concluded
The navies of India and Singapore on 22 May 2019 concluded their bilateral naval drill in the strategic South China Sea, where China is flexing its military muscles.
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#SIMBEX2019 #INSShakti #INSKolkata #IndianNavy #SingaporeNavy

How did water come on Earth?
A cosmic body that hit the Earth and led to the formation of the Moon about 4.4 billion years ago may have also delivered large quantities of water to our home planet, making it habitable, scientists have found.
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Niti begins work to improve data quality
Niti Aayog, India’s key policy think tank, has begun work on a roadmap that will suggest steps to swiftly tackle quality issues confronting official data.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22356-niti-begins-work-to-improve-data-quality.html
#NitiAayog #India #MoSPI #GDP #RajivKumar #HCE

PSLV turns money-spinner
Indian Space Research Organisation’s PSLV has turned into a money-spinner for the space agency as forex brought by the country’s mainstay rocket increased by Rs 90 crore from Rs 232.56 crore in 2017-18 to Rs 324 crore in 2018-19 fiscal year.
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#PSLV #SSLV #RISAT #SatishDhawan #SDSC #Isro

Dharmadhikari panel winds up exercise
Justice D.M. Dharmadhikari one-man committee appointed by the Supreme Court to resolve the issue over allocation of the State-cadre employees between the power utilities of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana concluded its exercise without making any headway, with one of the two sides unwilling to budge its stance even by an inch.
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#Dharmadhikari #AndhraPradesh #SupremeCourt #AP #Telangana

Weakest outcome ever
The longest-ever climate conference delivered probably the weakest outcome ever. The two-week Madrid climate conference could produce an agreement only after removing everything that any country objected to from the final text, and postponing all decisions on the only major agenda item it had to finalise.
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#Weakest #COP25 #IPCC #Madrid2019 #UN #ClimateChangeConference

'Kalpana' can foresee brain disorders
It is now possible to detect brain disorders well before time. Indian scientists at National Brain Research Center (NBRC) have developed a technology that uses the brain’s stress levels and pH to identify brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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#Kalpana #NBRC #GABA #Tesla #MRI #MRS #WHO #NINS

Today's Headlines - 16 August 2023
Isro’s space probe to study the Sun
GS Paper - 3 (Space Technology)

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) released images of the Aditya-L1 mission — the space agency’s first attempt to study the Sun. The satellite has reached the Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, for its integration with the launch vehicle, PSLV.

What is the Aditya-L1 mission?

The Aditya-L1 will observe the Sun from a close distance, and try to obtain information about its atmosphere and magnetic field.
It’s equipped with seven payloads (instruments) on board to study the Sun’s corona, solar emissions, solar winds and flares, and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), and will carry out round-the-clock imaging of the Sun.

Why is studying the Sun important?

Every planet, including Earth and the exoplanets beyond the Solar System, evolves — and this evolution is governed by its parent star.
The solar weather and environment affect the weather of the entire system. Variations in this weather can change the orbits of satellites or shorten their lives, interfere with or damage onboard electronics, and cause power blackouts and other disturbances on Earth. Knowledge of solar events is key to understanding space weather.
To learn about and track Earth-directed storms, and to predict their impact, continuous solar observations are needed.
Every storm that emerges from the Sun and heads towards Earth passes through L1, and a satellite placed in the halo orbit around L1 of the Sun-Earth system has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/eclipses.
L1 refers to Lagrangian/Lagrange Point 1, one of five points in the orbital plane of the Earth-Sun system. Lagrange Points, named after Italian-French mathematician Josephy-Louis Lagrange, are positions in space where the gravitational forces of a two-body system (like the Sun and the Earth) produce enhanced regions of attraction and repulsion.
These can be used by spacecraft to reduce fuel consumption needed to remain in position. The L1 point is home to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Satellite (SOHO), an international collaboration project of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA).
The L1 point is about 1.5 million km from Earth, or about one-hundredth of the way to the Sun. Aditya L1 will perform continuous observations looking directly at the Sun.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, has already gone far closer — but it will be looking away from the Sun.
The earlier Helios 2 solar probe, a joint venture between NASA and the space agency of erstwhile West Germany, went within 43 million km of the Sun’s surface in 1976.

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