In which city was Base 1, the facility for active space debris removal and in-orbit servicing, inaugurated in November 2026?
- A.Bengaluru
- B.Hyderabad
- C.Ahmedabad
- D.Thiruvananthapuram
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Explanation
The correct answer is Hyderabad. Base 1, the facility of the startup Cosmoserve Space, stands at VSD Tech Park in Gachibowli, a locality of Hyderabad in Telangana, and it was opened on 5 November 2026. Telangana's Minister for Information Technology and Industries, D. Sridhar Babu, attended as Guest of Honour, which fits the Hyderabad venue. Bengaluru is wrong: the release places nothing of this facility in that city. Ahmedabad is wrong for the same reason, and no centre there is named anywhere in the announcement. Thiruvananthapuram is wrong as well, and it does not figure in the event at all. The Minister who inaugurated the facility, Dr Jitendra Singh, did not travel to it; he joined the ceremony on video from Kartavya Bhawan in New Delhi and said he hoped to visit the site in person soon. Candidates should therefore hold on to two places for this story: the facility sits in Hyderabad, while the Minister spoke from New Delhi.
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Practice Questions
By which year has India set the goal of achieving debris-free space, as announced at the opening of the Base 1 facility?
- A.2028
- B.2030
- C.2035
- D.2040
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Dr Jitendra Singh announced a vision of debris-free space by 2030 while inaugurating Base 1, adding that India's growing strength in active debris removal shows its leadership in space technology and its concern for a safe orbital environment for all of humanity.
Read the full explanation →According to Dr Jitendra Singh, what is the projected size of India's space economy in the coming decade?
- A.USD 15-20 billion
- B.USD 25-30 billion
- C.USD 40-45 billion
- D.USD 70-75 billion
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The Minister said India's space economy has grown to nearly USD 9 billion and is projected to reach USD 40-45 billion in the coming decade.
Read the full explanation →Data from which space mission enabled the discovery that UBC 63 is a double cluster system?
- A.Hubble Space Telescope of NASA
- B.Gaia mission of the European Space Agency
- C.AstroSat of ISRO
- D.James Webb Space Telescope
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The researchers used Gaia measurements, which give exceptionally precise positions and motions for stars right across the Milky Way, and it was these data that revealed two populations of starkly different ages inside what had been taken for one cluster.
Read the full explanation →What are the approximate ages of UBC 63A and UBC 63B?
- A.21 million years and 562 million years
- B.562 million years and 21 million years
- C.100 million years and 400 million years
- D.6 million years and 26 million years
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UBC 63A is the young cluster of the pair at roughly twenty-one million years, while UBC 63B is much older at about five hundred sixty-two million years.
Read the full explanation →What did a team led by Indian astronomers find about the galactic open cluster UBC 63?
- A.It is the nearest open cluster to the Sun
- B.It is actually two distinct clusters that passed close to each other
- C.It hosts the first planet found outside the Milky Way
- D.It is merging with the Andromeda galaxy
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The group, which lies about 4892 light years away and had been treated in the limited earlier literature as a single cluster, was found to hold two separate stellar populations, now named UBC 63A and UBC 63B. Their brightness and colours formed two sequences in the colour magnitude diagram, and…
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