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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Reference News:-GSAT-7B satellite, which recently got the acceptance of necessity from the Defence Ministry, will be a dedicated satellite for the Indian Army.The satellite would help the Indian Army enhance its surveillance in border areas.Significance of t

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Reference News:-The GSLV-F10/EOS-03 mission, which lifted off from Sriharikota on August 12 last year failed due to ‘deviation in the performance’ of the cryogenic upper stage (CUS) of the launch vehicle, a national-level Failure Analysis Committee (FAC) cons

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Reference News:-Both Voyager spacecraft are rushing away from Earth and into interstellar space. Yet for a portion of every year, both spacecrafts’ distances to Earth decrease.Why is it so?The answer is that for a few months each year, Earth in its orbit moves tow

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 26, Mar 2022

Why in News?Recently, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Artemis I rolled out from Kennedy Space Centre.Artemis MissionAim:To land humans on the moon by 2024, and it also plans to land the first woman and first person of colour on the moon.

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 26, Mar 2022

Context: The present installed nuclear power capacity in the country is 6780 MW comprising of 22 operational nuclear power reactors. In addition, one reactor, KAPP-3 (700 MW) has also been connected to the grid in January- 2021.BackgroundIndia is not very rich in f

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Mar 2022

Reference News:-Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has issued directives to form a committee for surveillance of pollution problems caused by Koradi and Khaparkheda coal-fired power plants in Nagpur. Both the plants have also been directed to ensure 1

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Mar 2022

Reference News:-The Russian Ministry of Defence announced that it had used a hypersonic missile for the first time in the ongoing conflict with Ukraine.What is a hypersonic missile?A hypersonic missile is a weapon system which flies at least at the speed of Mach 5

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 23, Mar 2022

Reference News:-The European Space Agency’s ExoMars 2022 mission has been delayed after the agency suspended all cooperation with Russia’s space program Roscosmos.About ExoMars:It was a joint endeavour between ESA and the Russian space agenc

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 16, Mar 2022

Reference News:-  The India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP) provides an integrated vision towards cooling across sectors encompassing, inter alia, reduction of cooling demand, refrigerant transition, enhancing energy efficiency and better technology options by 2037-

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 16, Mar 2022

Reference News:-Indian researchers have developed a simple technique of separating the constant background of the Solar Corona and revealing the dynamic corona.The technique has been developed jointly by the Aryabhatta Research Institute and the Indian I