Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme
Objective: Aims to ensure equitable share to a girl child in resources and savings of a family Scheme: It […]
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Bennu asteroid – UPSC Prelims
Bennu is near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid about the size of a small mountain in the Apollo group. It is carbon-rich asteroid
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C- band Polarimetric Doppler weather radar (C-DWR)
It has instruments to measure rainfall intensity, wind shear and velocity and locate a storm centre and the direction of
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Gaofen-3 satellite
It is a high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Launched by China It is China’s first low orbit remote sensing satellite
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Moon Express (MX-1)
Moon Express is the first private company to get government approval for a moon venture MX-1E is a spacecraft that
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OSIRIS-REx Mission – UPSC Prelims
NASA’s project OSIRIS-Rex stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer. Aim: To travel to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu
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QUESS Satellite
QUESS stands for Quantum Experiments at Space Scaler (QUESS) satellite. It is also called MICIUS Launched by China World’s first
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ScatSat-1 satellite
It is a weather forecasting satellite It will be equipped with on board instruments to monitor sea surface winds and
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Scatterometer
A scatterometer is a microwave radar sensor It measures the scattering effect produced while scanning the surface of the Earth
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Ajeevika – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)
Ministry/Department : Ministry of Rural Development Objective: To reduce poverty by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment