mppscadda.com, Call – 9953733830, WhatsApp - 7982862964 Telegram - t.me/mppscadda 1 India lands LCA Tejas on INS Vikramaditya for SCIENCE & TECH the first time • Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has made a ENVIRONMENT successful landed on the India's biggest warship INS Vikramaditya. The maiden landing was JAN - DEC 2020 conducted by Commodore Jaideep Maolankar.India becomes sixth nation to master the art of an arrested landing and ski-jump take off ISRO to set its 2nd launch port in Thoothukodi on the deck of a carrier after Russia, the United district of Tamil Nadu States (US), France, the United Kingdom (UK)and • During the press conference in Bengaluru, China.LCA was developed by Aeronautical Karnataka with ISRO Chairman K. Sivan, it has Development Agency (ADA) long with Defence been announced that the second launch port of Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) will be established in Thoothukodi district of Tamil Nadu A 17-year-old intern at NASA, Wolf cukier to launch small satellite vehicles. This will come discovers new planet ‘TOI 1338b’ 1300 light up in 2300 acres. years away • Wolf Cukier, a 17-year-old boy from New York ISRO sets its fourth RAC-S in Karnataka (United States), has discovered a planet named • Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sets “TOI 1338b” that is 1,300 light years away & about its fourth Regional Academic Centre for Space 6.9 times larger than Earth, on the 3rd day of his (RAC-S) at the National Institute of Technology internship at NASA (National Aeronautics and Karnataka (NIT-K) at Surathkal in Mangaluru Space Administration). taluk. The centre helps for the advanced research in the areas of relevance to the future NASA Discovers Potentially Habitable Earth- technological and programmatic needs of the Sized World “TOI 700 d” in Star's 'Goldilocks' Indian Space programme. Zone • ISRO has set its first RAC-S in Jaipur, second at • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) of Guwahati and third at Kurukshetra. the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered an Earth- Two Coast Guard ships Annie Besant and sized world ‘Goldilocks’ zone within the habitable Amrit Kaur commissioned at Kolkata range of the star. • The two Indian Coast Guard Ships (ICGS) namely • Scientists confirmed the find as TOI 700 d by using Annie Besant and Amrit Kaur were commissioned NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (SST). and deployed along the eastern coast by Defence • First, habitable-zone Earth-sized planet is TOI 700 Secretary Ajay Kumar at Khidderpore park, d, the outermost planet 20% larger than Earth and Kolkata, West Bengal. Annie Besant will be based orbits its star in 37 days. at Chennai, Tamil Nadu under the operational and • TOI 700 d is 100 light-years away fromearth. administrative control of the Commander, Coast Guard Region(East). Gaganyaan Mission: ISRO to launch IDRSS satellites for space communication purpose SHOPPER Malware affects 14.23% Indian • The Indian Space Research Organisation users: Kaspersky report (ISRO),the space agency of the Government of • According to the researchers from cybersecurity India (GoI), has planned to launch a new satellite and anti-virus solutions provider Kaspersky, a series called “Indian Data Relay Satellite System new Trojan malware application called ‘Shopper’ (IDRSS)” for seamless communication for India’s (‘Trojan-Dropper. AndroidOS.Shopper.a' ) has first manned space mission ‘Gaganyaan’, which affected more than 14.23% Indian users. This have a schedule to take off in 2022. malware boosts shopping app ratings, spreads • IDRSS For Gangayaan Mission: It consists of 2 ads, installs apps without the permission of the satellites, which will be deployed in phases. The smart phone user. 1st one planned to launch by the end of 2020 to • The malware has infected 28.46% (the most) of track . Then the 2nd IDRSS satellite will be the users in Russia who use shopaholic app from launched in 2021, which will set the platform for October - November 2019. It is followed by Brazil the main mission launch in2022. (18.70%) and India (14.23%). mppscadda.com, Call – 9953733830, WhatsApp - 7982862964 Telegram - t.me/mppscadda 2 India’s 1st indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant Pradesh have developed a women security app to be commissioned by early 2021 ‘Very Good Morning’ (VGM) to reduce the crimes • The manufacturing of the country’s first against women. indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant is likely to be commissioned by early 2021. WHO: TB diagnostic test ‘TrueNat’ developed • Vikrant is currently under phase three of in India has high accuracy construction • World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) Global Tuberculosis Programme has included an Indian LIGO detects collision of neutron stars for the Molecular assay (test or analysis) named 2nd time “TrueNat” as its initial test to identify strain • A team of Scientists with the Laser Interferometer resistance of TB bacteria. Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo collaborations have detected gravitational waves Xenobots: World’s first living, self-healing due to collision of two neutron stars for the 2nd robots time. The first such gravitational-wave detection • Scientists of the University of Vermont and Tufts of merging neutron stars, called GW170817, took University have created the world’s first living and place in August 2017. self-healing robots Xenobots, using stem cells from frogs. Ariane 5 rocket launches communications • It is named after the African clawed frog, Xenopus satellites for India, Eutelsat into GTO from laevis from which they took stem cells. French Guiana, SA • Arianespace, French Company launched a pair of Indian Army to induct Artillery gun 'Sharang' communication satellites into Geosynchronous by March 31, 2020 Transfer Orbit (GTO) as its first launch in 2020 • Indian Army (IA) has announced to induct 1st through Ariane 5 rocket, consisting of ISRO batch of 18 indigenously upgraded 'Sharang' (Indian Space Research Organization) artillery guns by March 31, 2020. The communication satellite GSAT- announcement was made by the Programme 30(Geosynchronous Satellites) and EUTELSAT Coordinator of Sharang, Brigadier Jayant Kar. The KONNECT for the European satellite operator contract to upgrade the Sharang artillery gun was Eutelsat (European Organization of undertaken by Gun Carriage Factory (GCF) in Telecommunication by Satellite S.A) from Guiana Jabalpur with the help of state-owned ordnance space center, French Guiana, South America (SA). factories, and teams from the Army and DRDO • GSAT-30: To provide high quality television, (Defence Research and Development telecommunications and broadcasting services. Organisation). It’s mission life is more than 15years. • EUTELSAT KONNECT: The satellite is expected to POLNET 2.0 was inaugurated by the Union offer broadband data and internet services at Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai speeds up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps) for • POLNET 2.0 is a captive satellite-based network 40 countries in Africa and 15 countries in Europe. that provides video, audio and data connectivity across the country, especially in times of disasters Mobile app ‘Rojgar Sangi’ in Raipur when regular communication either gets jammed • The Chief Minister (CM) of Chhattisgarh, Bhupesh or crashes. Baghel has launched an employment-oriented • POLNET 2.0 provides video-conferencing facility mobile app,‘Rojgar Sangi’ developed by state-run to four entities sitting at different locations across Chhattisgarh State Skill Development Authority the country with Internet-enabled multimedia (CSSDA) at the ceremony of youth fest 2020 held services. at Science College premises in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The app is designed to provide World’s oldest ever mushroom fossil employment to trained youths under their skill discovered in Congo,Africa development programme. The app will act as a • The researchers from the Universite Libre de bridge between the employment-generating Bruxelles in France have discovered the world’s institutions or individual and skill-trained youth. oldest ever mushroom fossil in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Africa. The detail of Very Good Morning mobile app fossilised remains of microscopic mushroom • Mrityunjay Singh and Priya Rai, the students of called mycelium in rocks dates between 715 and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Banaras 810 million years ago and is published in the Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi, Uttar journal ‘Science Advances’. mppscadda.com, Call – 9953733830, WhatsApp - 7982862964 Telegram - t.me/mppscadda 3 1st unmanned mission will be launched in launched 3 chipsets in India – Snapdragon 720G, December 2020 as a preparation for 662 and 460, along with the 'Gaganyaan': ISRO • Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). All 3 • According to the ISRO (Indian Space Research chipsets feature Wi-Fi 6 connectivity and Organisation), chairman Dr Kailasavadivoo Sivan, Bluetooth 5.1 support &the most important thing ISRO would launch 2 unmanned missions in is that these 3 chipsets of Qualcomm have been December 2020 and June 2021 in view of the developed with support for ISRO’s Navigation launch of India’s first manned spacecraft with Indian Constellation (NavIC), a technology “Gaganyaan” in December 2021. considered an advanced location positioning and • For this, ISRO has prepared women robot navigation system than the GPS technology ‘Vyom Mitra’ (means a friend in Sky) for sending currently in use. into space. • Apart from NavIC, these chipsets will also support