Tejas – Light Combat Aircraft – UPSC Prelims
Tejas – Light Combat Aircraft Made in India Single-seat Single-jet engine, Multi-role light fighter It has been pegged as world’s […]
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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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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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Asteroids – UPSC Prelims
Asteroids Asteroids are small, airless rocky worlds revolving around the sun that are too small to be called planets. They
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Indian Neutrino Observatory – UPSC Prelims
Indian Neutrino Observatory: It is a particle physics research project under construction to primarily study atmospheric neutrinos in a 1,300 meters (4,300 ft)
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INS Vikramaditya
INS Vikramaditya is the country’s most powerful aircraft carrier. It was built in 1987 and had served the Soviet
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Earth Hour – UPSC Prelims
Earth Hour: Earth Hour is a global movement for environmental conservation. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) started it in
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Brahmos – UPSC Prelims
Brahmos Supersonic cruise missile Designed and developed by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture of India and Russia It has derived
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Raman Effect – UPSC Prelims
What is Raman Effect? Some part of light beam after passing through a transparent medium gets scattered. This phenomenon of
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MR-SAM – UPSC Prelims
Medium Range Surface-to-Air Missiles: MR-SAM stands for medium range surface-to-air missile. Jointly developed by India and Israel. Supersonic missile system