Science & Technology Mixed Quiz: Set 41

The lander of Chandrayaan-2 was named Vikram after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India's space programme. Chandrayaan-2 was launched by ISRO on 22 July 2019 on a GSLV Mk III rocket from Sriharikota.

THAAD is a United States ballistic missile defence system built to shoot down missiles in the last stage of their flight.

Rakesh Sharma flew in 1984, Kalpana Chawla in 1997, Sunita Williams in 2006 and Sirisha Bandla in 2021. Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian citizen in space on 3 April 1984, aboard the Soviet Soyuz T-11, and told Indira Gandhi that India looked 'saare jahan se achha'.

He was born on 22 December 1887 at Erode, worked largely without formal training, and left results on infinite series, continued fractions, partitions and the mock theta functions that mathematicians are still developing; he worked with G. H. Hardy at Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

NASA's Lucy mission, launched in October 2021, is the solar-powered spacecraft that travels farthest from the Sun to study the Trojan asteroids.

In February 2009 the working American communication satellite Iridium 33 and the defunct Russian military communication satellite Kosmos 2251 struck each other over Siberia at a relative speed of several kilometres per second.

The Technology Development Fund was set up by the Ministry of Defence in 2016 and is run by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as part of the Make in India drive.

The Cabinet approved the Deep Ocean Mission in June 2021 with this ministry as the implementing agency and an estimated cost of about 4,077 crore rupees spread over five years in phases.

THAAD, properly the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, is a United States system built to shoot down ballistic missiles in the last, or terminal, phase of their flight.

Hounsfield, an engineer at EMI in Britain, built the first clinical CT scanner, and Cormack, a physicist, had independently worked out the mathematics of reconstructing a cross-section from measurements taken along many directions.

RNA interference switches particular genes off, and every use in statements 1, 2 and 4 depends on switching a gene off.

The second phase shifted the emphasis from private cars to public and shared transport, concentrating its incentives on electric buses, two wheelers, three wheelers and commercial four wheelers, and tying them to conditions on battery type and on the share of parts made in India, while also funding charging stations.

Nanotechnology deals with matter at the scale of roughly 1 to 100 nanometres, where materials begin to show new properties.

The corridor uses the Shinkansen system, the high-speed technology Japan has run since 1964, and the project is financed largely by a soft loan from Japan carrying a long repayment period and a low rate of interest.

Ethereum, Tether, Solana and Cardano are all cryptocurrencies, digital assets recorded on blockchains rather than issued by a central bank.

The Indian Space Policy was approved in 2023 and set out in writing the division of work that the reforms of 2020 had begun: private companies, called non-government entities, may carry out the whole range of space activities; ISRO is to concentrate on research and advanced missions; NSIL is to…

Cas9 is the enzyme in the CRISPR-Cas9 system that cuts DNA at a chosen spot, which is why it is called molecular scissors.

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a huge radio telescope network built by ASTRON in the Netherlands, described as the largest and most sensitive radio telescope working at low frequencies.

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Launched in October 1997, it reached Saturn in 2004 and studied the planet, its rings and its moons for thirteen years.

BrahMos is indeed a joint DRDO-NPOM missile, but the IRRPL factory at Korwa is in Uttar Pradesh, not Madhya Pradesh.