What is it? The Vande Bharat train(Train 18) is an indigenously designed and manufactured semi high speed, self-propelled train The Vande Bharat coaches incorporate passenger amenities including on-board WiFi entertainment, GPS-based passenger information system, CCTVs, automatic doors in all coaches, …
What’s in News: DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft collided with the space rock Dimorphos. NASA has confirmed that the collision of the 600 kilogram weighing DART, on the Dimorphos(Didymos B), about five billion kilogram in mass (orbiting around the …
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) – NavIC IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite system developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). In April 2016, with the last launch of the constellation’s satellite, IRNSS was renamed Navigation Indian …
Why in News: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that it has successfully demonstrated a hybrid propulsion system that uses a solid fuel and liquid oxidiser. The hybrid system is more efficient, ”greener’‘ and safer to handle and paves …
Why in News: Ethereum blockchain fully transitioned to a new way of processing transactions. Ethereum’s Merge event, as it is known, could change the nature of crypto and Web3 itself. Developers say the transition to what is called a ‘proof-of-stake’ …
About Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is caused by infection of cattle or water buffalo with the poxvirus Lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV). The virus comes under the genus capripoxvirus. It is transmitted by blood-feeding insects like mosquitoes, flies, lice, and …
About the Perseverance rover NASA launched its Mars Perseverance Rover on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in July 2020. The rover landed at Jezero Crater in February 2021. The Mars 2020 mission addresses …
Why in News: An experiment carried out by the University of Oxford researchers combined high-precision atomic clocks and quantum entanglement, to achieve two atomic clocks that are “entangled.” This means the inherent uncertainty in measuring their frequencies simultaneously is highly …
What was the Hayabusa-2 mission? The Hayabusa-2 mission was launched in 2014 when the spacecraft was sent on a six-year voyage to study the asteroid Ryugu. It was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA). The spacecraft arrived at …
What are clouds? Clouds blanket 70% of the Earth’s surface at any given time. They are like a thin layer of the floating ocean, with enough water to cover the entire surface of Earth with about one inch of rain. …