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YEARLY COMPILATION: 2019-20 | Science and Technology | Contents 1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ... 01-11 Atmospheric Waves Experiment .........................13 AND COMMUNICATION Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope ..............14 Public Domain Name Systems (DNS) .................1 Auroras .........................................................................15 Param-Shivaay .............................................................1 GRAPES 3 Muon Telescope ...................................16 National Supercomputing Mission ......................2 Hayabusa 2 Mission of JAXA ................................17 Adoption of latest technology-3G, 4G, 5G .......2 Study disproves Hawking, shows tiny black .17 Ramanujan Machine ..................................................3 holes may not account for Dark Matter Nasa’sInSight Spacecraft .......................................18 5G Debate......................................................................4 Rare radioactive decay captured by .................18 Cryptocurrency ............................................................4 dark matter detector Quantum Computing ................................................5 Artemis- NASA’s next Moon Mission ................19 Wifi Access Network Interface (WANI) ...............6 Chandrayaan-2 will carry 14 Indian ...................19 Centralised Access Control System ....................6 payloads (CACS) & Training Module of e-BCAS Launch of RISAT-2B .................................................20 Centre of Excellence in Blockchain .....................7 NASA’s mission to launch Dragonfly .................20 Technology Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave National Mission on Quantum .............................8 Observatory (LIGO) ..................................................21 Technologies & Application (NM-QTA) Space Debris ...............................................................21 NIC TechConclave 2020 ............................................8 ClearSpace-1 Mission .............................................22 Wifi Calling ....................................................................8 Gravitational Lensing ..............................................23 Central Equipment Identity Register ..................9 NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) ..23 Kerala to Achieve 100% Internet .......................10 Project Miniature Sun .............................................23 Penetration K2-18b — a potentially ‘habitable’ planet ......24 Freedom on Net 2019 Report ............................10 First all-woman space walk ...................................24 ICEDASH AND ATITHI ............................................11 Aditya –ISRO’s Solar Mission................................25 EDGE COMPUTING .................................................11 CARTOSAT 3 ................................................................26 Gaganyaan Misson ...................................................26 2. SPACE TECHNOLOGY ................ 12-38 & EVENTS Hera Mission...............................................................27 TESS discovers its third new planet, .................12 Accretion Burst Event ..............................................28 with longest orbit yet NASA’s Artemis mission, and the ......................28 Indian American in its new astronaut cohort Juno Mission Captures Images of .....................12 Volcanic Plumes on Jupiter’s Moon IO Goldilocks Zone ........................................................29 Milky Way to collide with another Galaxy ......12 NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope .........................29 Communication Satellite GSAT-31 ...................12 VOYAGER 2 ..................................................................30 Japan satellite off to deliver artificial ...............13 Betelgeuse Supernova ............................................30 meteors GISAT-1 MISSION .....................................................31 Hubble fortuitously discovers a new ...............13 ISRO to launch an unprecedented ...................32 galaxy in the cosmic neighborhood 10 Earth Imaging Satellites www.iasscore.in 3 YEARLY COMPILATION: 2019-20 | Science and Technology | Mini-moon .................................................................32 Pranash Missile ..........................................................50 Indian Data Relay Satellite System (IDRSS) ...33 LIGHT COMBAT HELICOPTERS (LCH) ...............51 Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) ...................33 SIPRI Report on Sales of Arms Worldwide ....51 Ethiopia Launched its First Satellite ...................33 Brahmos Missiles .....................................................52 China-Brazil Earth Resource Satellite-4A .......34 Prithvi-II ........................................................................52 (CBERS-4A) Spike LR missile ........................................................52 A second mysterious object from .....................34 Night Trial of AGNI-II ............................................53 interstellar space may be about to fly .................. through our solar system LGM-30 Minuteman III ..........................................53 Rafale Jet Delivered .................................................53 NASA selects site on Asteroid Bennu ..............35 for Sample Collection Mission NAVIC AS ALLIED SYSTEM OF US .....................35 4. HEALTH & BIOTECHNOLOGY ..... 55-87 Ultima-Thule renamed as Arrokoth ...................36 Lymphatic Filariasis ..................................................55 Dwarf Planets in Solar System ............................36 Measles Rubella Vaccination ................................55 Geotail ...........................................................................37 Zearalenone, a fungal toxin ..................................56 GEMINI .........................................................................37 Formalin .......................................................................57 Oxytocin .......................................................................57 Ionospheric Connection Explorer .......................38 Global Influenza Strategy for 2019-2030 ........58 3. DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY ........... 39-54 West Nile Fever .........................................................59 IAF Inducts Its First Squadron Of ......................39 Dry Eye Syndrome ....................................................60 Sukhoi-30 MKI Aircraft Zika virus: US relaxes travel warnings ..............60 Nuclear-Capable K-4 Ballistic Missile ..............39 to India Defence Innovation Hubs ......................................40 Candida Auris fungus ..............................................61 Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet Missile System .......41 Non-Communicable Diseases .............................61 Artillery Gun Dhanush ............................................41 Side Effects of Common Antibiotics..................62 Sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ .....................42 WHO guidelines on use of Digital Health Technology ..................................................................63 ABHYAS Drone ...........................................................42 Chemists and Druggists are past; from ..........63 INS Vela ........................................................................43 now, all will be Pharmacies Recent Achievements of DRDO ..........................44 Genome Sequencing ...............................................64 Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator ............45 Bt Brinjal .......................................................................64 Vehicle WHO for eliminating industrially ......................65 Maritime Information Sharing Workshop .......45 produced trans-fat by 2023 Duchifat 3 ....................................................................46 Stress buster Serotonin may help treat Avangard Hypersonic Missile System ...............46 neurological decline ................................................65 Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missiles ..........47 Nipah Virus .................................................................66 (QRSAM) Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) ..................66 RISAT-2BR1 .................................................................47 Encephalitis surge in Bihar ....................................67 Integrated Air Defence Weapon System ........48 Chandipura Virus ......................................................67 (IADWS) Human Atlas ...............................................................68 India’s First Integrated Air Defence ..................49 Prevention of Tuberculosis ....................................69 Command 3D Printed Pill ............................................................69 The Military Balance 2020 ....................................49 Ebola Virus ..................................................................70 World’s Cheapest Gunshot locators has ........50 been named as “Parth” Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) ..........................70 VAJRA: Indian Coast Guard’s Offshore ............50 Diabetes ......................................................................71 Patrol Vessel Oxytocin Ban ..............................................................71 4 www.iasscore.in YEARLY COMPILATION: 2019-20 | Science and Technology | AIDS ...............................................................................72