Why in News: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully tested the new-generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni Prime. About Agni-P Agni-P is a new generation advanced variant of the Agni class of missiles. It is a canisterised missile with …
What’s in News: Skyroot Aerospace successfully tested Dhawan-1 and became the country’s first privately developed fully cryogenic rocket engine running on two high-performance rocket propellants — liquid natural gas (LNG) and liquid oxygen (LoX). The indigenous engine was developed using …
What are they? The natural world is analog while computing is digital. Computers perceive the natural world through sensorchips whose output is analog. The analog output is converted into the language of computers through a digitizer chip or an analog …
Who is he? Thanu Padmanabhan is an Indian astrophysicist who tweaked Albert Einstein’s theory of gravitation to explain dark energy. Prof Thanu Padmanabhan was also honoured with a Padma Shri. Dark energy is the name given to the mysterious force …
What is decomposition? When a plant, animal, or insect dies, that plant, animal, or insect is broken into tiny pieces and those pieces become part of the soil. This is called decomposition. Bacteria, fungi, and some worms break down dead …
About Chandrayaan 2 Chandrayaan 2 is an Indian lunar mission that attempted to conduct a soft landing on the Moon’s south polar region. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched Chandrayaan 2, a mission comprising an orbiter and a soft lander …
Why in News: A rare merging of three supermassive black holes has been spotted by a team of astrophysicists in India. What is a blackhole A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even …
Why in News: The government announced that Chandrayaan-3 mission is likely to be launched in late 2022. Details of the mission The Chandrayaan-2 mission, launched in 2019, was scheduled to be an effort aimed at landing a rover on the …
About IRNSS with its operational name NavIC is an independent regional navigation satellite system being developed by India. It is designed to provide accurate position information service to users in India as well as the region extending up to 1500 …