The RDI support is meant to take the OptoSAR technology through which readiness levels?
- A.TRL-1 to TRL-4
- B.TRL-3 to TRL-6
- C.TRL-6 to TRL-9
- D.TRL-4 to TRL-7
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Explanation
The correct answer is TRL-6 to TRL-9. Technology Readiness Level is a scale for how far a technology has travelled from an idea towards routine use, and the stretch named here is the late one: a system already demonstrated in conditions close to the real environment has to be engineered, tested and validated until it is proven in actual service. The Board describes its role in exactly those terms, as support through the critical stages between advanced development and deployment, with commercialisation as the eventual aim. Options A and B describe earlier stages, where the work is closer to laboratory research than to flight hardware, and a candidate who assumes that public funding always goes to early research will be drawn to them. Option D stops short of the top of the scale and so does not match the stated goal of reaching deployment.
Read the full article: TDB Gives GalaxEye Rs 63.84 Crore for OptoSAR Satellite
Practice Questions
How much support has the Technology Development Board agreed to give GalaxEye under the RDI Fund?
- A.Rs 36.48 crore
- B.Rs 63.84 crore
- C.Rs 84.63 crore
- D.Rs 127.50 crore
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Keep it apart from the other money figure in the same announcement, the total approved cost of the project, which is far larger; a question will often place the two side by side to see whether a candidate has confused the support with the whole outlay.
Read the full explanation →What is the total approved cost of the GalaxEye multisensor satellite project?
- A.Rs 147.69 crore
- B.Rs 247.69 crore
- C.Rs 347.69 crore
- D.Rs 447.69 crore
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This is the approved cost of the whole project, of which the Technology Development Board is supporting a part from the Research Development and Innovation Fund, the rest being borne by the company.
Read the full explanation →The OptoSAR technology of GalaxEye brings together which two kinds of imaging?
- A.Synthetic Aperture Radar and electro-optical imaging
- B.LiDAR and thermal infrared imaging
- C.Hyperspectral imaging and radar altimetry
- D.Satellite navigation signals and sonar imaging
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The two are put on one platform because their weaknesses do not overlap: optical imaging gives rich visual detail but is defeated by cloud cover and by darkness, while radar works irrespective of daylight and can image through cloud.
Read the full explanation →As of 6 November 2026, how many equipment items were listed on the I-STEM portal?
- A.4,044
- B.18,250
- C.31,540
- D.45,000
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As of 6 November 2026, the day its API integration with the Startup India Portal was launched, I-STEM listed 31,540 equipment items across 4,044 registered institutions, giving researchers and innovators a large national pool of scientific resources.
Read the full explanation →Who chaired the launch of the API integration between the Startup India and I-STEM portals on 6 November 2026?
- A.Dr. Parvinder Maini
- B.Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood
- C.Ateesh Kumar Singh
- D.Dr. Vishal Choudhary
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He described the integration as an institutional convergence that can lower R&D costs, avoid duplication of capital-intensive facilities and raise the use of publicly funded infrastructure.
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